Chicken factory set to win hours case despite rules break

A chicken factory in Preston is set to be allowed to operate for extended hours - after proving it had breached its time limits for more than a decade.

- by Jamie Lopez

Gafoor chicken factory in Dondale.

Gafoor Pure Halal Ltd, in Fletcher Road, last year had a bid rejected to modify the conditions which stopped it operating overnight and on Sundays and bank holidays but now looks to have won through an appeal.

The company effectively argued that the because it had operated outside of times agreed in its initial planning permission for so long, the condition limiting those times would be considered null and void in law.