UK’s biggest cheese factory is ‘ruining lives’ because of rotten egg smell
The biggest cheese factory in the UK is causing serious problems for locals living nearby, between noises keeping them up at night and the smell of rotten eggs making them feel nauseous.
Davidstow Creamery in Cornwall has a history of noise and smell issues, with the business being fined £1.52 million just last year for a series of pollution and odour charges.
But the complaints are still rolling in from residents who are at their wit’s end.
Davidstow Creamery in Cornwall has a history of noise and smell issues. Credit: ITV
One couple, Jim and Kasia from Tremail, live downwind of the creamery responsible for Cathedral City cheese and have said they feel ‘hopeless’.
Trying to describe the stench that they’re living in, Jim told ITV: “Sometimes it’s reminiscent of dead sheep, sometimes sewage-like or the other one is bad eggs, once you’ve smelt it you know it’s not just manure.”
Kasia added: “I feel hopeless because you actually know you are in the right, it’s what they are doing is wrong.”
Also struggling with the putrid smell are Natalie and Mark, who bought their home in Treworra just last summer.
The couple’s solicitors made thorough checks on the creamery, following its previous pollution issues, and eventually they were convinced that it would be safe to go ahead with the property purchase, since it looked like all issues had been resolved.
But, not a year later, Natalie told Cornwall Live that she’s often reduced to tears depending on the wind direction on any given day.
Jim and Kasia have been left feeling ‘hopeless’. Credit: ITV
She admitted that, between the unbearable smell and the ‘deafening’ sounds that keep her up at night, Natalie had been left to struggle with some of the ‘darkest thoughts’.
That being said, she ‘would not sell [the house] to her worst enemy’.
Natalie, her husband Mark and their 11-year-old daughter even claim to have suffered ‘headaches and nosebleeds’ due to the smell.
The couple claimed the smell and noises is ‘ruining their lives’.
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