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Developer fined for breaching conditions of bat licence
(www.constructionenquirer.com)
Good to see that NE actually has the resources to take action in cases like this - they are massively under-resourced.
However, I wonder how much the cost of this to the developer - £14500 - most of which are court costs - is actually a deterrent. That is not a lot for many developments, and I can see that it would be tempting to simply write it off as an acceptable cost.
There was no mention of whether they developer was required, as a result of this judgement, to add the access tiles and replace the felt as the original licence required either.