A council has been criticised by a magistrate after taking a farmer to court for failing to stop his chickens from crowing too loudly. Anthony Block with one of his cockerels Photo: EAST NEWS By Josie Ensor 2:49PM BST 11 Jul 2013 Comments Anthony Block, 52, laughed when Braintree District Council first informed him he had to appear in court over his free range chicken farm near Finchingfield, Essex. Mr Block was accused of breaching a noise abatement order he received three years ago preventing his chickens "crowing at a level likely to result in reasonable cause for complaint from occupiers of nearby residential properties". Despite being given no guidance on what are legally...
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