CLW Environmental Planners is a specialist agricultural consultancy dealing specifically with the intensive pig and poultry industry. We have been servicing the intensive agricultural sector for almost 20 years and uniquely tailor our services specifically to this sector
CLW provides sector specific agricultural consultancy services to our clients. Pig farming is a highly specialised farming sector, which by its nature differs considerably from other systems of production. We have been at the cold face of the evolving EPA Industrial Emissions (formerly IPPC) Licencing process. We have led numerous pig units through the intricacies of the EPA process and provide environmental management systems on numerous licensed farms. We have led pig units through the design, planning, environmental assessment and EPA licensing stages of projects on greenfield sites and on redevelopment of existing operating and abandoned sites. Pig units are geographically throughout the country from Kerry to Donegal and in between. We liaise with Local Authorities, EPA, inland Fisheries, National Parks and Wildlife Services and other state agencies on sites with complicated planning and environmental histories.
The company has been involved with numerous pig farm valuations for clients purchasing new units or restructuring existing finance. We have established a good working relationship with financial institutions and Valuations are respected and welcomed by these institutions. We can provide a whole of business assessment uniquely tailored to this sector.
Similarly poultry production is a highly specialised farming sector, which also differs considerably from other systems of production. CLW provide a tailored service specific to the needs of the poultry farmer.
CLW have experience in all areas of poultry production/ farming including Free Range Layer, Organic Layer, Commercial Layer, Free Range Chicken, Commercial Broiler, Corn-Fed Broiler, Pullet Rearing, Broiler Breeder and Ducks.
We have worked directly with (or for farmers producing for) many of the major poultry businesses in Ireland. Clients are geographically spread throughout the country. The typical scale of our clients’ operations varies from a 3,000 bird free range egg producer to a 500,000 bird commercial egg unit to broiler farms producing in excess of 1 million birds per year. We have guided numerous poultry developments through issues such as adjoining designated Natura sites or in achieving planning in visually sensitive locations.
Our success in Planning, Licensing and Enforcement speaks for itself.
