12 New chicken broiler houses

Construction of 12 new chicken broiler houses with dimensions of 15m x 120m, each housing 50 000 chickens. The site will have 12 houses in total. All the houses/broilers will be on remaining extend of portion 13 of the farm Wagebeetjies Draai 875 FT. This is a planned new chicken broilers facility with disturbance 8 HA in total and will be in operation for the next 30years. The entire area is currently used as natural grazing for agriculture purposes. The existing infrastructure found on site is only an access road and a water reservoir,. The preferred site is situated in the center of the farm in order to have the biggest distant between the chicken broiler houses and the neighboring dwellings. This preferred site is outside the urban edge. This land is currently used for agricultural activities thus no change in land use. The Chicken broiler area will be clearly demarcated. The preferred location is ideally located within existing chicken farms, crocodile farm, feedlot and agricultural activities. The location is also good as it is nearby to the Wartburg /Pietermaritzburg tar road with existing ESCOM infrastructure on the farm. The locality of the new broilers on the farm was chosen in such a manner that the lowest impact on the environment as well visual impact to the neighbours and general public. This application was carefully selected in order to have the maximum distance from the Umgeni River and natural water courses. The Umgeni River is 448m south-west from the nearest point of the application area. The type of activities will not have big/high impacts on the environment. The houses will be built in an environmental friendly manner to ensure maximum cooling through natural wind in the summer and to keep the heat inside in the winter and minimize the heating through coal. The roofs and side will be isolated.