Bats and Large-Scale Housing Maintenance Projects Guidance for England, published December 2024
BCT is delighted to announce the publication of Bats and Large-Scale Housing Maintenance Projects Guidance for England.
Experience and evidence gathered from practitioners have highlighted that standard guidance documents for bat roost surveys and mitigation are not well-suited to large-scale housing maintenance projects where there is relatively limited potential for roosting bats. Also where the principal focus is retention and repair rather than demolition.
This guidance represents the combined efforts of a Working Group of practitioners from the conservation, ecological consultancy, statutory nature conservation body and local authority sectors. The group was convened to review the experience and evidence of considering bats in real life large-scale housing maintenance projects.
The document lays out a set of project suitability factors for the approach described and the types of survey and mitigation that are appropriate. Importantly, it also lays out how to evaluate the effectiveness of the approach in order to iteratively adapt it according to the results of monitoring.
Bats and Large-Scale Housing Maintenance Projects Guidance Webinar
When: 27th February 2025, 10:00am - 11:15am
Cost: £25
BCT will be running a webinar outlining the content of this guidance and the associated case study. Speakers will include Jan Collins of BCT, Phil Bowater of Natural England and Daniel Best of Cura Terrae: Land and Nature Division (formerly Ecus Ltd.).
