HS2 is spending more than £100m on a "shed" to protect bats on a section of the line, even though there is "no evidence that high-speed trains interfere with bats", the project company's chairman has said. 

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HS2 spent £100mn on tunnel to protect rare bats

Sir Jon Thompson tells a conference there is "no evidence high-speed trains interfere with bats".

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Bat safety shed will cost £100m, says HS2 chairman

Expensive saga an example of UK’s ‘genuine problem’ with completing major infrastructure projects, project’s chair says

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HS2 spending more than £100m to build bat ‘shed’

Sir Jon Thompson said this is despite there being ‘no evidence that high-speed trains interfere with bats'.

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Government-owned company behind HS2 spends over £100m on a shed for bats

Tunnel-like structure sits over railway line and is designed to protect a colony of Bechstein’s bats living in nearby woods

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HS2 builds ‘bat shed’ costing £100m, chairman reveals

Sir Jon Thompson said this is despite there being ‘no evidence that high-speed trains interfere with bats’.

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HS2 Ltd spending more than £100m on bat ‘shed’, says chairman

Built to appease Natural England, the 1km structure is one of more than 8,000 permissions HS2 has had to secure during phase one of the project, which is evidence, the chairman says, of the UK's "genuine problem" with completing such plans.

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HS2 boss reveals £100m bill for a railway line 'bat shed' that 'isn't needed'

Kilometre stretch of steel mesh one of many planning requirements that has driven up costs, says project chair

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£100m HS2 bat shed was entirely necessary, says Bruce Wayne

Sir Jon Thompson said the 1km (0.6 mile) curved structure at Sheephouse Wood in Buckinghamshire will create a barrier so the creatures can fly over the railway without being affected by passing trains as all bats are legally protected in the UK. He told the Rail Industry Association’s annual conference in London on Thursday HS2 is calling the building “a shed”, and it is being built to appease Whitehall advisory body, Natural England. Sir Jon wa…

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HS2 Boss Reveals £100m Bill For A Railway Line 'bat Shed' That 'isn't Needed' - Great Yorkshire Radio

HS2 is spending more than £100m on a “shed” to protect bats on a section of the line, even though there is “no evidence that high-speed trains interfere with bats”, the project company’s chairman has said.  Sir Jon Thompson said the 1km (0.6 mile) curved structure at Sheephouse Wood in Buckinghamshire will create a barrier so the creatures can fly over the railway without being affected by passing trains as all bats are legally protected in the …

HS2 boss reveals £100m bill for a railway line 'bat shed' that 'isn't needed'

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