{"id":598558,"date":"2025-11-28T04:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/598558\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T04:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T04:55:20","slug":"successful-bat-conservation-at-graven-hill-self-build-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/598558\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful bat conservation at Graven Hill self-build development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A scheme to protect bats roosting at the site of the UK&#8217;s biggest self-build community has been hailed as a success.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A survey undertaken in 2015 as part of plans for the Graven Hill development in Bicester, Oxfordshire, found evidence of bat roosts in abandoned buildings and woodlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graven Hill Village Development Company (GHVDC) had to apply to Natural England for permission to demolish buildings where the legally protected species were found, and take measures to safeguard the bats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ecologist Simon Dowell, who helped devise the plan, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s great that we can provide for ecology alongside development.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scheme to protect bats roosting at the site of the UK&#8217;s biggest self-build community has been hailed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-598558","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-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115625546405426833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}