Alpaca farm under threat after council says it isn’t ‘profitable enough’

One of more than 70 alpacas at Alpaca Acres, which rescues neglected and abandoned animals (Picture: Dawn Goulding/Alpaca Acres)

A non-profit Alpaca farm which saves neglected animals has been denied planning consent by a council because it doesn’t make enough money.

Alpaca Acres is under threat of closure after a local authority determined that the organisation doesn’t make enough profit for the owner to live there.

Dawn Goulding moved to the 10-acre estate in Great Tey near Colchester, Essex in 2017 but is now facing the prospect of being evicted ‘any day’ after Colchester City Council have deemed her business to be not making enough money for her to live on the site.

Dawn, 55, suffered a life-changing leg injury ...