‘We were forced to pay £105k to rehome newts no one ever saw’
Quoting Ed Jephson and Clare Coode from Stacks Property Finders
Clare Coode, of Stacks Property Search in Cornwall, has a client who bought a stone barn two years ago and is still waiting to turn it into accommodation. The bats found in the building are rare and in order not to disturb them, the owner will have to lower the ceiling height of the building and also dig the floor down, so as to create the required distance of 2.5 metres between the ceiling and the roof.
“It’s a frustratingly slow and expensive process and, even if there are no bats visible, mitigation measures may still be required on the grounds that the building is classified as having ‘potential for bats’,” Ms Coode says.
Her colleague, Ed Jephson of Stacks in Devon, has a client with a farm on Dartmoor who has had to install bat accommodation – he calls it a “bat cave” – in one of his agricultural barns. “It’s the size of a small studio flat and cost almost £10,000,” Jephson says.
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