Residents talk about life near Davidstow Creamery
Residents living near the Cathedral City cheese factory have had their lives blighted by its pollution and smell.
The Environmental Agency (EA) says it records multiple permit breaches at the plant and says “unacceptable impacts” are being made on both local people and the environment. Davidstow Creamery, responsible for popular products such as Cathedral City, Frylight, and Clover, was ordered to reduce its odour and noise pollution five years ago but little has been done the EA says.
The residents had complained about horrible smells and whirring noises which kept them awake at night and made their families sick.
When the factory in Cornwall was successfully prosecuted last year, it admitted charges of breaching its permits by polluting, which resulted in the deaths of fish, and that “blighted the lives of people living nearby,” according to judge Simon Carr in his sentencing remarks at Truro Crown Court.
Fast forward to today, and the largest cheese factory in the UK — and the largest mature cheddar factory in the world — then owned by Dairy Crest Ltd and now owned by Canadian company Saputo has killed thousands of fish in the River Inny, discharged waste into the river repeatedly, failed to notify the Environment Agency (EA) about breaches, and caused physical and emotional suffering to residents.
The company pleaded guilty to more than 20 charges of polluting the river and air and breaching its permits relating to how much it was allowed to release into the environment before being fined more than £1.5 million in June 2022 for doing so, reports Cornwall Live.
Davidstow Creamery has “ruined” the lives of locals (Image: Cornwall Live)
Natalie, 40, and Mark, 55, live in nearby Treworra.
They purchased the property last summer, after the company was charged and fined at Truro Crown Court after pleading guilty to 21 charges relating to pollution and odour incidents and permit breaches in 2016–2022.
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