River Wye Pollution Claim: Roundtable Q&A for local businesses
Want to learn more about the community's legal action to clean up the River Wye?
The River Wye Claim team will be hosting a roundtable event for local businesses at the Globe, Hay-on-Wye, at 6pm on Wednesday 13th November 2024 to discuss its legal action regarding the pollution of the River Wye. This event will be in-person only.
Leigh Day is a law firm that specialises in environmental cases. In the Wye valley, Leigh Day has launched a legal action on behalf of local residents and businesses against the industrial agriculture corporation Avara Foods for their alleged role in polluting the River Wye and its tributaries. In simple terms the legal action aims to force the alleged polluters to own up, clean up and pay up for their impact of pollution.
What to expect?
We want to hear from local businesses who have been impacted by the pollution. For example, this could be an angling club whose membership numbers have suffered as a result of reduced catches, the operator of a kayak company who now receives fewer bookings, or the owner of a local riverside pub whose customers have complained of odours from the river, or unpleasant sights.
The legal team will give a short presentation on the firm and claim before taking questions and comments from the community.
Where and when?
📍 Location: Globe, Hay-on-Wye, Newport Street, Hay on Wye, Hereford, HR3 5BG.
📅 Date: Wednesday 13 November 2024
🕒 Doors open at 18:00, event starts at 18:30 until 20:30.
If you wish to attend the meeting, please complete the short form below.
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River Wye claim
Residents of the Wye, Usk and Lugg River catchments are bringing a collective legal action against Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water and companies within the Cargill UK poultry group (including Avara Foods), for their alleged role in polluting the region.
First legal move in River Wye chicken pollution claim
Lawyers representing hundreds of people and businesses impacted by River Wye pollution have written to Avara Foods, Freemans of Newent and Cargill PLC in the first stage of a major civil action.
Multi-million-pound legal claim launched to compensate people living near River Wye for pollution allegedly caused by chicken producers
A legal claim potentially worth hundreds of millions of pounds has been launched by law firm Leigh Day in a bid to compensate thousands of people living in the Wye catchment likely to have been affected by a major degradation of the River Wye and its tributaries in recent years.