Monday, 8 April 2013

Demolished Homes - New Bat Roosts at Wylfa, Anglesey

Alongside the dismantling of two former homes a new, state of the art bat roost is constructed on the edge of the Wylfa Nature Trail close to the open coastal grazing of Wylfa Nature Reserve.
The bat roosts would be a planning requirement because so many houses that used to provide roosts for bats, and barn owls are being demolished as part of the development of land around the old power station by New Horizon.
Advised / designed by consultant Richard Crompton and Cambrian Ecological Partnership
Planning permission has been applied for and approved for these bat roosts and the barn owl nesting sites, but an application for the power station has not been submitted. These alternative sites are to show good faith but are experimental. See objections from Hinkley Point where the same thing has happened.

PV genration panels on roof of new bat roost
at Wylfa Nature Trail, Anglesey.

Gable of new bat roost
at Wylfa nuclear power station.
Different sized entry holes for different types of bats.

Additional bat boxes in trees around the new Wylfa bat roost.
The new bat roost at Wylfa,
between two former homes currently being dismantled
in preparation for the new Wylfa B power station.

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Sunday, 31 March 2013

Bat House at Wylfa

New 'house' being built as a bat roost by New Horizon. This is required because of the number of properties they are demolishing in advance of putting in their planning application for their new power station.  To prepare the site they had to cut down surrounding trees and bulldoze the former gardens of the two houses now boarded up.
A bat roost being erected by New Horizon at Wylfa Power Station
to provide roosts for the bats displaced from the properties they have demolished.

Friday, 15 March 2013

New List of properties to be Demolished

Many more properties on land owned by New Horizon will be demolished over the coming weeks.
But they have panning permission to erect barn owl and bat roosting sites. Either new build or conversion of out buildings.
Good for the owls and bats, but why demolish when the proposed power station doesn't yet have a license to be built in the UK, and planning applications have not yet been submitted, let alone passed?
List of buildings to posted next.