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Bellway Homes gets largest fine ever issued for wildlife crime Housebuilder Bellway Homes has been ordered to pay the largest fine ever issued by a UK court in relation to wildlife crime after damaging a site inhabited by bats. After admitting guilt to having “damaged or destroyed a breeding site or resting place of a wild animal” on Tuesday at Woolwich Crown Court, the firm was ordered to pay a fine of £600,000 with further costs of more than £30,000. Bellway said it would also make a vo...

Housebuilder hit with record £600,000 wildlife fine for destroying single bat roost The company bulldozed a building in Woolwich, London, without removing the bat roost first 11 December 2020 • 4:08pm A pipistrelle bat. The £600,000 fine dwarfs the previous record for disturbing a bat roost, of £18,820, given in 2019.    Credit: PA Destroying the home of a single bat has landed a housing company with a £600,000 fine, the largest ever for a wildlife crime. Bellway Homes bulldozed a forme...