Demand grows for portable butcheries

He used to work for a modular buildings manufacturer. But his passion is deer-hunting and he saw the difficulties involved in getting game from hunts and culls in the middle of nowhere into dealerships, while complying with regulations on chilling food after slaughter.

He set up his own fabrication business in Garton, east of Hull, and went to the Forestry Commission in 2007 with his design for a movable butchery and chilling unit which would run anywhere it could be plugged into mains electricity, a water supply and drainage – usually a septic tank, in practice.

The commission placed an order for delivery to the Wyre Forest and came back for more – along with other big landowners from Skye to West Wales. Fisher Game Larders cost from £5,000 to £80,000, depending on size and facilities.

Mr Fisher has also supplied a unit to work as a butchery for pigs slaughtered for Anna’s Happy Trotters, the free-range pork business run by Richard Longthorp’s daughter at Howden.

He says: “A relocatable building bypasses a lot of planning problems and it’s an asset which stays on the balance sheet if the business moves.” See www.fisheruk.org or call 01964 529512.