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Following submission of the Environmental Statement and on consultation with the consultees, an additional five hedgerows which recorded a single Barbastelle pass would also be subject to hazel hurdles methods (as above) during construction.
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In order to prevent the potential reduction in available foraging opportunities and access to roosting sites for bats, as a result of lighting impacts, no working at night should be undertaken, except at specified locations where it cannot be avoided (i.e. for 24 hour drilling operations or night time road closures).
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In order to compensate for the removal of sections of hedgerows it is recommended that once the ground works have finished, all gaps are planted up using native shrubs and trees of local provenance. The gaps, within the eleven hedgerows (six within the ES and additional five identified post submission) deemed as important for bats, would be planted up stocks of shrubs and young trees.
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The toolbox talks given to site staff would include information on bats together with methodologies for installation of the hazel hurdles. Briefing notes containing this information would also be available at the site offices.
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Depending on the pre-construction bat activity surveys at the converter station a lighting strategy will be agreed with the relevant authorities. This would include provisions for directional lighting to be used at the converter station during 24hr working, in order to avoid lighting the flight path potentially used by the Little Blakenham Pit SSSI bats. This would illuminate the construction working area and avoid potential flight paths associated with boundary features.
Post Construction 135
Further surveys for bats would be undertaken post-construction. This would include reinstated hedgerow sections. Three surveys would take place following the same methodology as the baseline surveys, these would take place in May, July and September and in years one, three and five post construction.
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Any bat boxes installed under licence would be monitored for as per the licence requirements agreed with Natural England.
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