The discovery of bats on the site of a proposed Aldi supermarket in Roscommon shouldn’t be a ‘death knell’ for the project.<\/p>\n
That’s according to local Fianna F\u00e1il councillor Sean Moylan, who says the result of an Ecological Assesment was a setback.<\/p>\n
Aldi wants to build the supermarket and refurbish five houses on Patrick Street in Boyle.<\/p>\n
Roscommon County Council had sought more information before making a decision.<\/p>\n
Aldi submitted an Ecological Impact Assessment, prepared by Altemar Marine and Environmental Consultancy.<\/p>\n
It found the proposed development would result in the loss of a roost for five bats.<\/p>\n
The council is due to decide whether to grant planning permission on January 22nd.<\/p>\n
Cllr Moylan says action is needed to address the existing buildings:<\/p>\n
He believes the project will go ahead next year:<\/p>\n
Local councillor Tom Crosby says he strongly hopes Aldi still gets planning permission:<\/p>\n
Alex Muschketat from Wildlife West Rescue says ecological studies are essential:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The discovery of bats on the site of a proposed Aldi supermarket in Roscommon shouldn’t be a ‘death…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-209222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}