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HS2 boss reveals £100m invoice for a railway line ‘bat shed’ that ‘is not wanted’

By Editorial Board Published November 7, 2024 3 Min Read
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HS2 boss reveals £100m invoice for a railway line ‘bat shed’ that ‘is not wanted’

HS2 is spending greater than £100m on a “shed” to guard bats on a bit of the road, although there may be “no evidence that high-speed trains interfere with bats”, the mission firm’s chairman has mentioned. 

Sir Jon Thompson mentioned the 1km (0.6 mile) curved construction at Sheephouse Wooden in Buckinghamshire will create a barrier so the creatures can fly over the railway with out being affected by passing trains as all bats are legally protected within the UK.

Mr Thompson informed the Rail Trade Affiliation’s annual convention in London on Thursday HS2 is asking the constructing “a shed”, and it’s being constructed to appease Whitehall advisory physique, Pure England.

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The ‘shed’ will permit the bats to fly over the construction. Pic: PA

Undated handout artist's impression image issued by HS2 of the Sheephouse Wood bat protection structure which will run for around one kilometre (0.6 miles) alongside the wood, creating a barrier allowing bats to cross above the high-speed HS2 railway without being affected by passing trains. Issue date: Thursday November 7, 2024.

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The construction runs for round 1km (0.6 miles). Pic: PA

He warned his viewers they might not consider it, however the shed “cost more than £100m to protect the bats in this wood”.

It was, he mentioned, an instance of the UK’s “genuine problem” with finishing main infrastructure tasks, explaining that the government-owned firm has needed to acquire 8,276 consents from different public our bodies associated to planning, transport and the surroundings to construct part one of many railway between the capital and Birmingham.

He mentioned: “People say you’ve gone over the budget, but did people think about the bats [when setting the budget]?

“I am being trite about it however I am making an attempt as an instance one instance of the 8,276 of those [consents].”

Different, costlier choices have been additionally checked out whereas the Excessive Pace Two (London to West Midlands) Act was going by means of parliament, he mentioned, together with boring a tunnel and re-routing the railway away from the wooden.

Even after Pure England accepted the design, the corporate needed to spend “hundreds of thousands of pounds” on legal professionals and environmental specialists as a result of the native council didn’t approve the work, Sir Jon mentioned.

“In the end, I won the planning permission by going above Buckinghamshire Council’s head,” he defined.

Sir Jon, who has led the mission since Mark Thurston left his position as chief government in September 2023, warned in January that the estimated price for part one has soared to as a lot as £66.6bn.

In 2013, HS2 was estimated to price £37.5bn (in 2009 costs) for the complete deliberate community, together with now-scrapped extensions from Birmingham to each Manchester and Leeds.

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