Premiere UK athletic training ground lodge put on hold due to newts
By kingsnake.com · March 3, 2015 5:31 am
Planned for the Tottenham Hotspur football club, a new athletic facility has halted development because the land is home to great crested newts.
From the Irish Mirror:
“Surveys confirmed the presence of a medium-sized breeding population of great crested newt within the pond on site, and individual long-eared and common pipistrelle bats roosting in the agricultural buildings as well as the presence of grass snake on site. “This being the case; the proposed development will result in the loss of a great crested newt breeding pond, confirmed bat roosts, amphibian/reptile suitable habitat and mature trees.” It states that before planning permission can be granted the newts and bats must be "looked after" and that the club must "demonstrate that the favourable conservation status of the species will be maintained within the whole of the site".Read more here.
