Article 51093 Norfolk road report rewritten to remove warning of risk to bats

Norfolk road report rewritten to remove warning of risk to bats

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Patrick Barkham
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Survey said proposed Western Link threatens endangered barbastelles in Wensum Valley

An ecological report revealing that a new road would imperil one of Britain's rarest mammals was rewritten to remove the warning.

The proposed Western Link road in Norwich will cut through a maternity roost of barbastelle bats and put at risk a wider "super colony" that lives and feeds in the Wensum Valley.

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