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The pig and poultry units about to be built or enlarged.

A unit with places for more than 40,000 poultry, 2,000 production pigs or 750 sows cannot open or grow until its environmental permit allows it. Each application is published with the farm, the stage and a date, which makes them the earliest public record of where intensive livestock farming in Britain is expanding.

Cards since 21 September 2026
60
Regions with activity
11

Last updated 6 November 2026. To quote a figure: “CapexRadar, capexradar.uk/livestock-farms, 6 November 2026”.

See the cards on StanfellStanfell is where suppliers read the cards, with the company and how to reach it. Try it with a work email.
  • Scotland2
  • Northern Ireland2
  • North East4
  • North West2
  • Yorkshire and the Humber5
  • Wales1
  • West Midlands9
  • East Midlands13
  • East of England7
  • South West9
  • London0
  • South East2
By region, all months60 in all, 4 not placed

By region

RegionCardsShare
Scotland2
Northern Ireland2
North East4
North West2
Yorkshire and the Humber5
Wales1
West Midlands9
East Midlands13
East of England7
South West9
London0
South East2
Not placed4

A region comes from the postcode of the site or centre. Where the record has none, the card is counted as not placed rather than guessed.

By month

A month gets its own page once it holds 5 or more cards.

Companies are named here a month after their card is published; the first in this sector appear on 21 October 2026.

How this page counts

What is counted
A new environmental permit for an intensive poultry or pig unit, a variation that changes one, or a permit granted, at a farm we can match to a registered company.
What is left out
Farms held by individuals rather than companies, permit transfers and surrenders, and water abstraction licences.

Why it matters to a supplier

  • A new unit means houses to build and fit, with ventilation, heating, feeding and drinking systems, months before the first birds or pigs arrive.
  • Every permit sets how manure and slurry are stored and how ammonia and odour are controlled, and each of those is bought from someone.
  • Counted by region, the applications show where integrators and farming companies are adding capacity, which planning statistics show only much later.

Questions

Why is there no figure for the size of each unit?
Because the permit is named after a legal threshold, not the farm's size, and many applications do not state the places. The engine never turns a threshold into a figure, so units are counted rather than summed.
Are dairy and beef farms included?
No. The permit covers intensive poultry and pig units only; cattle farms do not need one, so they leave no dated record of this kind.

The cards behind these numbers

On Stanfell, every card in this sector carries the figure, the date, the company behind it and a reading for your trade, the day it is published.

Poultry and pig farm leads on Stanfell