Introduction
- Project description
- Development of care bungalows at a disused site of a former social club. After lesser horseshoe bats were identified using the abandoned social club, compensation measures were integrated into the new care buildings.
- Ecologist’s name and contact details
- Wildwood Ecology Limited
- Planning authority
- Newport City Council
- Brief site description
- Former social club building at a disused site on the edge of a residential area in Beechwood, Newport. The site lies adjacent to broadleaved woodland with the River Usk less than 1 Km away.
Pre-works roost structure
- Type of structure
- Building
- Use
- Other
- Condition
- Derelict
- Approx. age
- Over 30 years.
- Main construction material of walls
- Brick
- Roof design
- Flat Roof
- Roof material
- Stone
- Internal roof structure
- Not Applicable
- Photos or annotated figures of roost structure
Pre-works roost description
- Species
- Lesser horseshoe bat
- Number of bats max count
- 10
- Type of roost
- Hibernation Roost
- Evidence of bats
- Bats Seen in Roost
- Roost location
- Other
- Aspect of roost
- various
- Height of roost entrance (m)
- 1.8
- Roost material(s)
-
- brickwork
- Nearest commuting feature
- Woodland
- Distance to nearest commuting feature (m)
- Not reported
Proposed works
- Description of works
- Demolition of existing structure under licence followed by the replacement of a purpose-built artificial basement roost.
- Type of impact upon the roost
- Long-Term Roost Modification and Roost Loss
- Relevant annotated figures
Proposed mitigations
- Type of mitigation
- Compensation
- Specific technical detail of measure
- Bat hibernaculum: Aim was to provide a secure roost area and environment that replicates and enhances the layout and environment of the current site. Purpose-built artificial basement roost to include secure bat access/egress points with light baffles. Access/egress points face secure and dark woodland habitat for bats to emerge and enter. Internally, four sections provide different environmental conditions for light sampling and a cool tower provided within one of the middle sections. No external lighting and site set within a secure (gated) area. Secure steel door provided for monitoring access by those with confined space training.
Size: Approximately 250 square metres
Materials: Brick and blockwork
- Relevant annotated figures
- Roost location
- Underground Structure
- Aspect of roost
- N
- Height of roost entrance (m)
- 1.8
- Roost material(s)
-
- Brickwork
- Nearest commuting feature
- Woodland
- Distance to nearest commuting feature (m)
- Not reported
- Photos or annotated figures of roost
Actual mitigations implemented
- Type of mitigation
- Compensation
- Specific technical detail of measure
- Not implemented at time of upload to website.
- Roost location
- Other
- Aspect of roost
- notApplicableEGUndergroundSites
- Roost material(s)
-
- Nearest commuting feature
- Hedge
Monitoring data
- Length of monitoring proposed
- To commence in autumn / winter 2013 (no data yet provided)
- Frequency of monitoring
- Not reported
- Type of monitoring
- Roost Inspection
