Saturday 9 July 2011

It's either incompetence or else they're lying...

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There's a chicken factory - run by an Irish-owned firm called HCF (Poultry) Ltd - in Cullingworth and today it stinks. I mean really stinks - the smell is actively unpleasant, you wouldn't want to spend any time outside near the factory.

In trying to resolve this situation - to provide some relief for the factory's neighbours and in anticipation of the Village Gala tomorrow on the nearby recreation ground - I discovered that not one public authority holds keyholder or management out-of-hours contact details for this plant. Not the Council's environmental health department, not the fire service and not the police.

Not only am I angry about this - what would happen in the case of a fire or a serious break in? What would happen in frustrated and annoyed neighbours decided to take the law into their own hands?

This is either incompetence or they're lying. It's really not good enough.

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3 comments:

Fat Jacques said...

Set it on fire

Anonymous said...

"not one public authority holds keyholder or management out-of-hours contact details for this plant. Not the Council's environmental health department, not the fire service and not the police."


Oh, but I bet they all have a direct hotline to check up on global-warming "problems", outdoor-second-hand smoke "threats" and mis-placed recyclables in the wrong wheelie-bin "crimes".

I bet they have contact info for more serious and internationally concerning items of that nature.

Anonymous said...

shame such a lovely gala day was spoilt by the discusting stench from the factory