Westpork restarts plans at Dandaragan / Moora for $28 million piggery development
Sunday, 31 July 2022
Shire of Dandaragan chief executive officer Tony
Nottle said he was surprised by the scale of the proposed piggery.
"It is a
very large piggery proposal and at its full extent will probably be one of the
biggest piggeries in the southern hemisphere," he said.
Recap: 2017
A
plan to establish a very large piggery in the Shire of Dandaragan, about 25
kilometres north west of Moora, has prompted concern from those on neighbouring
properties.
The
proponent Westpork Pty Ltd has submitted an application for planning approval
to develop two piggery modules with a capacity to house 68,000 pigs, in a
farrow to finish or breeding to finish operation.
There
is also a longer term site plan for a third module on the property that would
cater for another 34,000 pigs.
The
council has invited submissions on the proposal with their 24-day comment
period closing on Wednesday, March 22.
Westpork
purchased the rural-zoned property in late 2016.
It
is surrounded by mixed farms, with three residents within two kilometres of the
proposed piggery.
Mr
Nottle said due to the project's size, the council would make a recommendation
but the Joint Development Assessment Panel would make the final decision.
"We
are not against economic development for our shire," he said.
"We
are not against the piggery as such — it is just the scale and enormity of this
enterprise has just come completely out of the blue for us.
"Our
concerns are obviously the size of the enterprise, where the sheds are going to
be located in our local landscape."
"This
submission is over 500 pages long and it's on a disk," Mrs Brown said.
"The
time and length and sheer volume of its pretty overwhelming."
