{"id":551289,"date":"2026-04-26T07:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551289\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:35:08","slug":"river-pollution-leaves-couple-living-in-a-shed-on-a-building-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551289\/","title":{"rendered":"River pollution leaves couple living in a shed on a building site"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2018, the Coyles bought a plot in the village of Edwyn Ralph which had planning permission for a 5-bed bungalow.<\/p>\n

They reapplied to build a 3-bed home using sustainable wood, air source heating and solar panels, but the restrictions on building kept delaying their case.<\/p>\n

They were granted permission in 2025, but the delay has cost them tens of thousands of pounds extra in legal fees, phosphate credits and building materials.<\/p>\n

“Our daughters have to rent accommodation when they come to visit us and Tony has had serious health issues which are really concerning,” said Jane Coyle.<\/p>\n

“We lived near the Wye for 20 years, and saw it deteriorate, but we didn’t imagine that river pollution would affect us so much.” <\/p>\n

“I studied agriculture, and we’ve always lived in the countryside, waterways are really important to us.”<\/p>\n

The couple are among 4,500 people who have added their names to a legal case <\/a>which claims industrial scale chicken farming and sewage spills are causing pollution in the rivers Wye, Lugg and Usk.<\/p>\n

The case against Avara, Freemans of Newent, and Welsh Water starts at the High Court in London tomorrow \u2013 all three firms vigorously deny the claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2018, the Coyles bought a plot in the village of Edwyn Ralph which had planning permission for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-551289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}