Artist's studio mistaken for abattoir

News reports said that local people started protesting about the studio when they heard it was to have abattoir rails and have launched a petition against the development.

Kim Trinder, who lives opposite the industrial estate where the studio will be built, told the London Evening Standard: "It's disgusting. I don't want a slaughterhouse and dead animals here. He kills them and then wants to put them in a showroom. Who would do that?

"I don't think Hirst would be very welcome here. We're animal lovers. I don't think it'll do much for the house prices either."

But Stroud District Council have insisted that the rails will only be used to transport Hirst's works of art, which include a shark preserved in formaldehyde, around the studio and say plans for the building will go ahead: "The building has been approved," said a spokesman.

"It's true local residents complained but there is no abattoir - the story came from the usual media hysteria. It is not an abattoir, it's a studio. Who knows what the abattoir rails will be used for? It could be cows, sheep, sharks, anything," he said.

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