A brown long-eared bat (plecotus auritus). Picture: Mnolf
BATS living at a former garden centre are to be captured by hand and their resting places destroyed to make way for two five-bedroom homes.
Developer Stuart James Ltd has won a licence from Natural England to move or disturb three species of bat living at the former Hills Nurseries on Appleton Common.
The species are the brown long-eared, common pipistrelle and soprano pipistrelle.
See the full details at whitehorsedc.gov.uk using reference number P18/V0604/DIS
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