The owners of a Warwickshire chicken farm who “deliberately and cynically exploited” the planning system for five years have been ordered to pay out almost a quarter of a million pounds by a judge who said it was “difficult to imagine a more serious case”.
The planning row revolved around slaughterhouse buildings illegally erected in the green belt by the Summers family at Cank Farm in Tanworth-in-Arden near Solihull…