Canterbury residents will be given the chance to give feedback on a farmer’s consent application to build four large indoor cattle barns on Banks Peninsula.
Farm company Wongan Hills has applied for consents to Environment Canterbury (ECan) to build four large composting feed farms on their Kaituna Valley farm - which could hold up to 2200 cattle - near Te Waihora Lake Ellesmere.
The four large sheds would house the cattle 24 hours a day, year-round.
But local community group Little River Eco Collective has been vocal in opposition to the proposed barns - saying they will have detrimental effects on the local environment.