Leaving the EU and Bat Protection

[Stephen Blair]

As the title says! Any ideas?

[Gary Prentice]

As a nation of animal lovers, I can't see why we'd go backwards.

[felixthelogchopper]

It's certainly a concern, particularly with the appointment of Gove to the Environment post. Hopefully, as the current laws would need to be revoked then the protection will remain.

[felixthelogchopper]

As a nation of animal lovers, I can't see why we'd go backwards.

 

Unfortunately, many people love money more than wildlife.

[skyhuck]

There is a bill being passed that will make ALL current EU legislation become UK legislation.

 

Any changes will then need to be made by parliament.

[drinksloe]

To be honest the bat legislation needs changing.

Its too much stick and no carrot.

 

I have a small wood i'm doing a bit of work on it and turning into nature reserve, but the 1 thing i will not be encouraing is bats it just makes any future work more expensive as u have to deal with bat surveyors.

2 of the local robers wanted 1200/1400 quid plus vat to inspect my roof recently

Personally i think anyone that volantarily puts a bat box up nowadays is off there head the ammount of red tape u've just got involved in.

 

And i should/would like to encourage them as anyting that eats midges should be encouraged

[Johny Walker]

To be honest the bat legislation needs changing.

Its too much stick and no carrot.

 

I have a small wood i'm doing a bit of work on it and turning into nature reserve, but the 1 thing i will not be encouraing is bats it just makes any future work more expensive as u have to deal with bat surveyors.

2 of the local robers wanted 1200/1400 quid plus vat to inspect my roof recently

Personally i think anyone that volantarily puts a bat box up nowadays is off there head the ammount of red tape u've just got involved in.

 

And i should/would like to encourage them as anyting that eats midges should be encouraged

 

 

& How long does it to survsy yr house

[drinksloe]

It will depend on size age etc, but took about 3-4 hrs althou a fair bit of bletheringin that time, and then a dawn/dusk survey.

 

If they actually find any bats or evidence of them extra surveys bat licences etc all more cash.

Managed to find a far cheaper boy in the end who done it for 250, but the 2 local well known companies were wanting 1200-1400 for a basic survey, roofers not wanting much more to strip and re-roof it.

 

I also have niehbours who do have bats in there lofts, i'd hate to encourage ore into the area if it caused them problems in the future if they ever need to do work on therir roof's