{"id":498294,"date":"2026-03-27T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498294\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:56:09","slug":"bat-concerns-delay-work-on-selbys-30m-regeneration-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498294\/","title":{"rendered":"Bat concerns delay work on Selby&#8217;s \u00a330m regeneration scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the team was exploring whether some mitigation work could be carried out in advance, but warned that making significant progress before the bat survey season started in May was proving difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bats are legally protected in the UK, with it illegal to damage, disturb or kill a bat and its roosting place without a special licence from Natural England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additional complications had also emerged, Richards said, with parts of the scheme having to be redesigned after they did not fit at the location, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Melanie Davis, who represents Selby West, said she had concerns about how long the project was taking and how money was being &#8220;whittled away&#8221; on it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking at the meeting, she said: &#8220;I have a concern in the way it&#8217;s been presented that this might all end up being the bats&#8217; fault and I don&#8217;t want anybody to run away with that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The bats are happy doing whatever they&#8217;re doing where they do it. This is not their fault.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said the team was exploring whether some mitigation work could be carried out in advance, but warned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-498294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}