Cost of ‘bat shed’ to protect colony near HS2 has topped £100m, chair says

Jon Thompson tells industry conference there was no evidence' that bats were at risk from the trains

The cost of a bat shed" to protect a species in woodland along the new HS2 high-speed line has risen to more than 100m, HS2's chair has revealed.

The 1km-long mesh structure will be built where the London-Birmingham high-speed line emerges from a tunnel in Buckinghamshire, to protect a colony of Bechstein's bats.