A GROUP of residents are set to gather at the entrance of a well-known local poultry farm this week to demonstrate against the industry’s “harmful” impact on the environment.

The recently-formed group, Foresters Against Fowling (FAF), are taking part in the first of “a series of actions” to raise awareness of the damage caused by local Intensive Poultry Units (IPUs) with a demonstration outside Clearwell Mill on Friday (March 11).

Members of the group say the site is “central” to the poultry industry in the local area as it is not only home to Hayes Farm, which is an IPU rearing turkeys, but the mill itself is owned by egg producer Noble Foods, which has come under fire in recent years over the pollution of the River Wye.

Noble produces grain to feed poultry at IPUs across the Forest, Herefordshire and Shropshire at Clearwell Mill.

The group will be displaying banners and placards at the entrance to the site on Friday morning to raise awareness of the mill’s impact on the local environment.

The members say that operations at the mill are “causing the death of the Wye” and are damaging the biodiversity of nearby woodlands through air pollution.

Group members previously spoke to BBC’s Points West from the boundary of the site in December. They say the mill characterises how “intensive farming practices combine to harm the environment and contribute to climate change.”

All are welcome to attend this week’s event, with the group meeting at Scarr Bandstand at 10.30am on the day.

Attendees are asked to write something on a placard “relevant to the harm caused by the IPU industry”.