A NEW bat house has been built at Bradley Lane as demolition of the site continues.

The structure will provide a safe haven for the areas sizeable population of bats, who, prior to it being knocked down, had called the derelict buildings of Bradley Lane home.

24/01995/FUL, which sought to build a bat houses to the west of Bradley Lane, was approved by Teignbridge District Council on February 4

The application came before Newton Abbot Town Council’s planning committee on January 7.

Members recommended that the application be refused on the grounds that it was ‘premature and based on the proposed future redevelopment of the Bradley Lane area’ and that the design of the bat house was ‘out of keeping with the area’.

AECOM, the company that submitted 24/01995/FUL, was instructed by TDC to carry out bat emergence surveys on six buildings at Bradley Lane.

Furthermore, a desk study, a study that involves collecting all available existing information about a given site, recorded at least 11 different species of bat nesting within two kilometres of Bradley Lane.