Norfolk dual carriageway plan would ‘wreck’ rare bat colony, experts say
by Patrick Barkham from on (#6ASPC)
Exceptional' super-colony of endangered barbastelles found in path of proposed road near Norwich
The centre of an exceptional" super-colony of one of Britain's most endangered bats has been discovered in the path of a proposed road across a chalk stream.
A planning application for the Western Link dual carriageway near Norwich is expected to be submitted this summer despite researchers identifying the UK's largest known colony of barbastelle bats in the threatened Wensum valley woodlands.
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