{"id":511797,"date":"2026-04-04T02:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511797\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:34:10","slug":"dilton-marsh-homes-refused-due-to-bechsteins-bats-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/511797\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilton Marsh homes refused due to Bechstein&#8217;s bats habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plans to build new houses have been rejected because of the presence of rare bats on the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council ruled the half-hectare site was important for Bechstein&#8217;s bats, which are one of the rarest of the species in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans to build new houses have been rejected because of the presence of rare bats on the site.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-511797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511797","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=511797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}