A FORMER pig farm near York could be transformed into a high-tech business park, under plans submitted to Harrogate Borough Council.

SALEM TWP. – Paul D’Agostin of Will-O-Bet Farms, 139 Bomboy Lane, was given conditional approval Thursday by the township supervisors to undertake a swine-raising operation on his farm that ...

PHOENIX — Hundreds of young hogs scurried back and forth in pens, snorting and bumping into one another.

A plan to convert old pig farm buildings into new homes on greenbelt land would set a ‘devastating precedent’, objectors claim.

Plans for a ‘social housing’ caravan park at a former pig farm have been rejected after more than 100 residents objected.

This is the first story in a three-part series called Hogtied, which examines the political, regulatory and economic forces shaping a proposal to build the state’s largest pig farm.

The state animal husbandry department has decided to draft a piggery development and regularisation act to regularise the scattered and unorganised pig farming sector.

The pong from the growing pork business near Preston has forced the city council to throw out plans for nine bungalows on land next door - just as it did for 45 homes close by in 2020.

PLANS to turn a former pig farm into a concrete manufacturing plant are acceptable, says a planning chief.

A proposal for a farm in Devon that would have up to 8,000 pigs inside angers some neighbouring residents.