My neighbours complained about my roosters being too loud – now council says I might have to KILL them… I'm devastated | The Sun

A WOMAN has been left devastated after the council said she might have to kill her own roosters following complaints about the noise.

Jess Marson, 33, could see her seven crowing cockerels face the chop after magistrates ruled against her.

Following three appearances before magistrates, Jess was given a two-year conditional discharge and was also slapped with a £1,000 fine to pay towards prosecution costs. 

The birds are often heard crowing early in the morning from a smallholding on a field that has been part of a farm for more than a century.

But neighbours have said the crowing has caused a nuisance for three years since the first complaint to the Kirklees council in West Yorkshire in 2019. 

Back in February, it was reported that Jess failed to reduce the disturbances after being issued with a noise abatement order.

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The council had imposed the order after locals from a village near Huddersfield, complained the noise was affecting their sleep.

Lorry driver Jess defended her animals despite being prosecuted for failing to reduce the noise.

But she has now admitted to failing to comply with noise abatement notices and signed an undertaking to remove the cockerels, reports Mail Online.

Gary Leader and his wife were some of the residents who complained about the roosters crowing, a court heard.

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Prosecutor Ian Mullarkey told Kirklees Magistrates' Court that resident Mr Leader lived close enough to be disturbed by the animals.

Mullarkey said: "He complained that his sleep was being disturbed by cockerels crowing and affected him and his wife's sleep."

The council's environmental health officer visited Mr Leader's home at 5.30am in April.

They found the cocks' crowing was "intrusive and at a level and frequency to prevent sleep and prevent the average person returning to sleep".

Mullarkey added: "Mr Leader said the impact of the crowing and its frequency intrusiveness has affected his quality of living and the enjoyment of his property."

After a number of returning visits, environmental health officers heard the cockerels' crowing through closed bedroom windows.

On one occasion five cockerels could be heard crowing 34 times in 13 minutes.

And on another early-morning visit, the cockerels were heard to crow 146 times in 30 minutes, Mr Mullarkey told the court.

Jess was served with a noise abatement order, but failed to make any effort to silence the birds – resulting in her now having to remove them permanently.

Mullarkey said: "Now, Miss Marson has agreed to give an undertaking she will remove the cockerels from the land within 28 days and she will not bring or have any more cockerels on the land in any time after."

Bench chairman Benedetto Paolozzi told Jess: "The council started to engage with you and curb the time the cockerels were disturbing residents.

"You did not engage with the council. The cockerels were crowing at an unreasonable time and at a level that would ruin a normal person's sleep and enjoyment of their own home."

Jess responded: "I will be getting rid of the cockerels.

"I've got four weeks to find a home for them, but not everyone wants cockerels and if necessary they will have to be humanely euthanised. I am looking for someone to give them a home."

Ben Bell, mitigating, said his client had attended court three times and it was "regrettable" that it had taken this much time to "resolve" the situation.

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Thanks to court bills, Jess has now moved further away and is considering the future of all of her animals.

The animal lover also owns a host of other animals including geese, goats and a pot-bellied pedigree pig called Brian. 

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