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Conflicts in the countryside: soon a law to protect farmers?
Nearly 500 procedures oppose farmers and new-rural residents. City dwellers who have come to settle in the countryside have difficulty accepting the noise of tractors or the smells of herds and take legal action. A proposed law should help protect farmers. – (France 2)
Nearly 500 procedures oppose farmers and new-rural residents. City dwellers who have come to settle in the countryside have difficulty accepting the noise of tractors or the smells of herds and take legal action. A proposed law should help protect farmers.
Will it still be possible to sue your farmer neighbor because his farmyard is too noisy, the powerful sound of bells or disturbing odors? In a few days, a new law could protect breeders against complaints of noise and odor pollution. For several years, these neighborhood conflicts have regularly made headlines. Farmers are singled out by residents living a few meters away.
480 farmers targeted
A sometimes difficult cohabitation, which in a small town in the Oise, has lasted for more than ten years. In Saint-Aubin-en-Bray, six residents complained about noise and odors coming from Vincent Verschuere’s cow farm. As a result, the breeder is ordered in 2022 to pay 110,000 euros to the plaintiffs in compensation. Today, 480 farmers would be targeted for the same reasons. But a law could change everything. With it, for example, a farmer established since 2005 will not be able to be worried by his neighbors who arrived in 2020.
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Figures “490 complaints” : source FNSEA and Me Timothée Dufour, lawyer for the majority of these cases which target farmers/breeders.
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