Approval sees the owner able to run 1065 pigs on the site, including 199 sows with the remaining numbers consisting of piglets.

The piggery, on Rivers Road near Canowindra will be free-range operating as a rotational outdoor piggery where pigs are kept outdoors in paddocks that are used in rotation with a crop-pasture phase.

Cowra Shire Council this week unanimously approved the development despite objections from some neighbouring landholders.

"I think all of the concerns have been addressed by Council staff," cr Ray Walsh said this week.

"There is one concern that is not even part of this," he added of the objections received.

"It's a legitimate agricultural pursuit that has been properly assessed," fellow councillor Bruce Miller said.

"We have no reason not to approve this," he said.

Cr Peter Wright said the conditions stay on the development for "eternity".

"I think there are enough conditions placed on this.

"I have difficulty accepting this as an intensive industry as the pigs aren't contained in a small area, the effluent is spread out in a more even manner and not in a manner that is allowed to build up.

"It is a benefit to the pasture and crops.

"There are concerns about run-off but farmers are only allowed to contain about 10 per cent of the water that falls on their property. You have to let the water take it's natural course.

"On my property I have seen sheep manure inches thick on a dam but I have no controls placed on me on how many sheep I should have or what I should do with the manure.

"It is difficult to say this piggery is going to be the polluting menace of the whole stream," he said of concerns raised about the development polluting the Belubula River.

"The development meets state regulations and the regulations of the pig industry itself.

"This is an industry trying to produce what the consumer wants, a free range product," Cr Peter Wright said.

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