The owners of a Brighton chicken farm destroyed by fire may get back half of the thirty-thousand dollars they paid in landfill tipping fees.
Mayor Chris Herrington says Northumberland County Council agreed to return fifty per cent of the charge paid by Archer’s Poultry if it can prove it didn’t have insurance for tipping fees.
Twenty-four-thousand birds killed in the fire last November were buried at the Brighton landfill.
Mayor Herrington says it is important to help local industries, such as Archers, which employs 32 people, to continue operating.
