Penygarn housing plan must have home for bats

3:10pm Friday 1st March 2013 in News

Penygarn homes developer must build home for bats Penygarn homes developer must build home for bats

A NEW home for bats would be built by a housing developer if a plan to knock down an old chapel where they roost gets the go-ahead.

Torfaen council will be considering an application for 124 new homes and the demolition of the old chapel on the former Trevethin Community School site in Penygarn, which is currently a habitat for a number of protected bat species.

The old chapel was retained when the school building was demolished in 2008, because of its importance as a bat roost.

The lesser horseshoe bat, common pipistrelle bat and brown long-eared bat have been confirmed there.

Barratt Homes proposes to demolish the chapel and construct a separate building on site for the bats.

Comments(4)

gadget says...
4:10pm Fri 1 Mar 13

I dont know why bats derserve this level of protection , there are thousands of them , There blimmin horrible creatures . Another eu crackpot law to keep some idiot in a job.

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ladyjane79 says...
5:45pm Fri 1 Mar 13

i didn't agree with the school being knocked down in the first place and was very happy that they kept the chapel why cant they just leave it alone that's what was agreed in the first place.Another part of pontypool history has been knocked down where will it end.

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grayham norton says...
6:46pm Fri 1 Mar 13

Why don`t the developers look to redevelop the chapel has part of the estate keeping 100 of years of history not just bulldozing it down , would serve has a good remembrance what stood there for the community for many years

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grayham norton says...
6:47pm Fri 1 Mar 13

forgot to mention thought building was listed building

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