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Take a look at this article which raises classic planning issues in an unusual form.

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The recent debate about farming cows in enclosures has taken another turn with the Minister for the Environment calling in the discharge consents at the heart of this matter.The Beehive website records that  consent applications have been received from Southdown Holdings Ltd, Williamson Holdings Ltd, and Five Rivers Ltd and involve nearly 18,000 cows being housed eight months of the year on farms totalling a land area of 8555 hectares, holding ponds totalling 77 million litres and discharges of 1,743,000 litres of effluent per day.

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