'It's like acid has gone up your nose...' The village so smelly residents can't sell their homes

Villagers living near a sustainable water disposal plant say they're struggling to sell their homes because of the smell.

Locals say the constant stench coming from the former farm is so bad they can't even open their windows during the summer months.

And it's not a new issue either - residents in Gelligaer in Caerphilly, Wales, say they've had to put up with it for 20 years.

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The Bryn Group, owned by the Price family, which has been at the site that was once known as Gelliargwellt Uchaf farm for five generations, has turned what was once a family farm into a 350-hectare eco-friendly waste management site. It also sells renewable power.

It employs more than 100 people and has a herd of 720 Holstein Friesian cows. It offers a recycling service, composting, turns food waste into renewable energy and fertiliser and produces sandstone from the quarry, which is used in road surfacing. Its operations are regulated by Caerphilly County Borough Council, which is also one of its big customers, reports WalesOnline.

Villagers don't have an issue with the Price family diversifying their business so successfully. But they say that, despite resurrecting a liaison group with themselves and the site earlier this year, they feel ignored by both the company and the council.

Sherry Spencer, 72, who has lived in Gelligaer all her life, claims the blasts from the quarry to create sandstone have caused cracks in her home, while the smell from the plant has prevented her from selling up. Since 2016 the group has used an anaerobic digester to turn food waste delivered by local councils into “food soup”, which is blended with faeces and urine from the cattle on