Brooklands House Farm hopes to lease its land after it lost 15,000 chicken in the outbreak
A farm which lost 15,000 chickens to bird flu is aiming to turn part of its land into a bulldozer training facility in a bid to save the business.at Brooklands House Farm, Doveridge, in November.It has now applied to Derbyshire Dales District Council to lease land for an excavator training facility.
David Poyser, from DCP Farms, has applied for a two year lease for the facility on land near the A50, which has not had crops grown on it since waste was tipped on the site while the road was being built, theHe wrote in his application that the Government does not provide compensation for firms affected by avian flu outbreaks and he has enlisted the help of Dales MP Sarah Dines to lobby for a change in policy on the issue.
The application also includes plans to install a 100-metre railway track so that trainees can learn how to operate a number of the machines.The district council is expected to make a decision on the lease in the next few months.
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