Plans to build new houses have been rejected because of the presence of rare bats on the site.
Wiltshire Council has refused planning permission to Stone Developments which applied to build up to nine detached and semi-detached houses at Five Farthings on the edge of Dilton Marsh.
The council ruled the half-hectare site was important for Bechstein’s bats, which are one of the rarest of the species in the UK.
Stone Developments appealed the decision and argued that other developments had been permitted within the Bath and Bradford-on-Avon Special Area of Conservation (SAC).