F.A. Gill Limited are Meat Processors and Wholesalers and facilities found at their Parkfields plant are slaughterhouse, cutting plant, meat preparation, mechanically separated meat, purification plant with pigs being the main species slaughtered but also catering for additional farm animals.
During the 1970’s Gills began to expand its operation purchasing surrounding properties and land around its butcher shop and abattoir and expanding its slaughterhouse operation to accommodate increased demand following the development of the Wolverhampton ring road and the closure of Wolverhampton’s main abattoir formerly located in Pipers Row.
Over the years residents have lodged many complaints with the company and the local authority about the noxious odours that seep from the business but have never achieved a satisfactory reduction or conclusion to the problem.
Residents regularly find themselves unable to open windows hang out washing or use their gardens when the odours are at their worst which is often but not limited to the mornings following a night of slaughtering.
People living on the perimiter of the site regularly experience pig slurry being washed onto their back gardens and properties when the livestock vehicles are being washed down by F.A. Gill Limited staff without any consideration for the nuisance and pollution it causes. Some residents have commented that these actions seem to be malicious and revengeful following them making formal complaints too and about the company.
Research carried out in the United States found the following,
The effect of environmental odours emanating from commercial swine operations on the mood of nearby residents
The effect of environmental odors emanating from large-scale hog operations on the mood ofnearby residents was determined using the POMS (Profile of Mood States). The scores for six POMS factors and the TMD (total mood disturbance score) for 44 experimental subjects were compared to those of 44 control subjects who were matched according to gender, race, age, and years of education. The results indicated a significant difference between control and experimental subjects for all six POMS factors and the TMD. Persons living near the intensive swine operations who experienced the odors reported significantly more tension, more depression, more anger, less vigor, more fatigue, and more confusion than control subjects as measured by the POMS. Persons exposed to the odors also had more total mood disturbance than controls as determined by their ratings on the POMS. Both innate physiological responses and learned responses may play a role in the impairment of mood found here.
By Susan S. Schiffman , Elizabeth A. Sattely Miller, Mark S. Suggs and Brevick G. Graham
Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 U.S.A.
F.A Gill is a family run business and the honourable Christopher John Frederick Gill is the current public face of the business and the man behind the disgusting smell in our neighbourhood. Luckily for him he lives in Ludlow and unlike us he does not have to suffer the stench his business produces.
Christopher John Frederick Gill (born October 28, 1936) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was one of the Maastricht Rebels and is the former Chairman of The Freedom Association (TFA). He is also a member of the National Executive Committee of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). Gill was born in Wolverhampton where he was a local councillor and was educated locally at Birchfield Preparatory School and then Shrewsbury School. His national service was in the Royal Navy, serving aboard HMS Modeste and HMS Birmingham. He is a director of his family's sausage making business called F.A. Gills Ltd.Gill served as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Ludlow from 1987 to 2001, when he stepped down. He was known as the "Butcher from Ludlow", due to his family company being a meat processing firm. During the Maastricht Rebellion, Food Minister Nicholas Soames threatened to: "close every abattoir you own". He had the Conservative Whip withdrawn over the EC Finance Bill on November 28, 1994.He was a dedicated constituency MP, who fought against the closure of local cottage hospitals. Gill was known for being an expert on European Union legislation regarding farming and also unusually (for a landlocked constituency) fishing.He served as Chairman of The Freedom Association from 2001, before becoming its President in 2007.In 2006, Gill announced that he had joined the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), having endorsed the Party's policies at the European Parliament election, 2004 and resigned his membership of the Conservatives shortly afterwards. In 2007, he was elected to UKIP's National Executive Committee.Gill's autobiography is entitled Whip's Nightmare: Diary of a Maastricht Rebel.ReferencesWhip's Nightmare (2003)
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It is our desire to see a end to the intolerable conditions that we have been forced to live with for more than half a century, in these modern times it is unacceptable that decent tax paying residents in Parkfields, Wolverhampton should be expected to endure and lock themselves away from the intolerable stink that is regularly produced by F.A. Gill Limited.
If you live or work in the Parkfields area of Wolverhampton and are being affected by the odour pollution or other nuisances caused by F.A. Gill Limited please leave your comments and let us know how it is affecting you or families life.
Whenever you smell the odours
Please Don't Ignore it!
Call the Environmental Agency on 0800 80 70 60 (Freephone 24 hour service) and Report it.
Remember the more calls they get from those affected the more they will be obliged to tackle the problem.
Soon you will also be able to sign up to a petition at the Parkfield Off Licence on Parkfield Road calling for F.A Gill Limited to bring their noxious odours and operational methods under control and stop making the daily lives of Parkfields residents intolerable.
People Inhaling Gill’s Stink (P.I.G.S.)
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