HS2 Ltd is spending more than £100m building a "shed" for bats, the chairman of the government-owned company said. Sir Jon Thompson told a rail industry conference the bat protection structure in Buckinghamshire was needed to appease Natural England ...

HS2 Ltd is spending more than £100 million building a “shed” for bats, the chairman of the Government-owned company said. Sir Jon Thompson told a rail industry conference the bat protection structure in Buckinghamshire is needed to appease Government ...

Built to appease Natural England, the 1km structure is one of more than 8,000 permissions HS2 has had to secure during phase one of the project, which is evidence, the chairman says, of the UK's "genuine problem" with completing such plans.

Expensive saga an example of UK’s ‘genuine problem’ with completing major infrastructure projects, project’s chair says