Bat surveys access request

[theboytheboy]

Just had a request to allow access for a bat survey. They have permission on neighbouring property and have asked if they can access our fields/woodland in case the bats they are tracking go onto our land.

Am I potentially going to give some quango a stick to beat me with if they track the bats onto our land/farmyard?

It hard enough getting any development done here anyway.

I'm not anti environment/nature etc but could do without the place ending up as a SSSI or some other ballache

 

[spin cycle]

10ft bargepole springs to mind

 

[Dry Rot]

Tell them to come back in the winter and ask again then as you have birds nesting now. Nothing like playing them at their own game.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

Tell them to come back in the winter and ask again then as you have birds nesting now. Nothing like playing them at their own game.

Then up the ante by asking for copies of their method statement, evidence of competency (membership of a suitable professional body will suffice), insurance etc etc.

After all, you can't be too careful these days

 

[Bald Rick]

Just had a request to allow access for a bat survey. They have permission on neighbouring property and have asked if they can access our fields/woodland in case the bats they are tracking go onto our land.

Am I potentially going to give some quango a stick to beat me with if they track the bats onto our land/farmyard?

It hard enough getting any development done here anyway.

I'm not anti environment/nature etc but could do without the place ending up as a SSSI or some other ballache

Bats are highly protected in any case so I don’t see a problem with allowing them to track them on to your land.
Personally I’m always interested to know what wildlife I’ve got on the farm as it proves not all farmers are eco-destroyers. Every time someone accuses me of being an intensive dairy farmer, I just shrug and mention otters, various owls, tree sparrows and other rarities including quail … and then say they all taste like chicken

 

[Pistonbroke]

There's a really nice bloke comes here counting and tagging dippers on the river and there's a nest under my bridge. Last year he came in an evening and there were bats going past him into a stone barn,turns out they're some rare breed. He was all excited about how he was going to tell people,so I told him if he does that, it's the last time he sets foot on the place and I'll make sure they're encouraged to move somewhere else. He was here last week and says the population has more than doubled,so I said I'll leave them alone if he keeps his gob shut and he agreed that was the best answer

 

[Welderloon]

Tell them they need individual Public Liability insurance cover of £10million & £50 million to set foot on your land, they will need to attend & complete a recognised LANTRA site safety awareness course forwarding the attendance & completion cert/evidence to you, also any recognised qualifications they have for their job including records of experience & competency of all team members, supply risk assessments, method statement, worksite safety meetings records.

You then need to organise a 'Plan the operation on paper' Risk Assessment/ Hazard Identification meeting, this can identify any further potential hazards allowing them to further update their paperwork before they wander on your land, once all that is in order, forwarded to you & signed off & when they arrive to bat watch have an onsite pre-job meeting before allowing them to proceed.

Make sure this happens for every visit.

Make it difficult because once you have bats confirmed in any buildings you can pretty much forget residential development planning in the vicinity.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Just say no, you don’t have to let them in and they really have no reason too, any compitent person will know if their in your neighbours the only real reason to go onto your is to confirm they roost in your property is that something you want?

 

[Kidds]

Tell them they need individual Public Liability insurance cover of £10million & £50 million to set foot on your land, they will need to attend & complete a recognised LANTRA site safety awareness course forwarding the attendance & completion cert/evidence to you, also any recognised qualifications they have for their job including records of experience & competency of all team members, supply risk assessments, method statement, worksite safety meetings records.

You then need to organise a 'Plan the operation on paper' Risk Assessment/ Hazard Identification meeting, this can identify any further potential hazards allowing them to further update their paperwork before they wander on your land, once all that is in order, forwarded to you & signed off & when they arrive to bat watch have an onsite pre-job meeting before allowing them to proceed.

Make sure this happens for every visit.

Make it difficult because once you have bats confirmed in any buildings you can pretty much forget residential development planning in the vicinity.

This is exactly what these people thrive on, just tell them to bugger off.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

This is exactly what these people thrive on, just tell them to bugger off.

They love inflicting bureaucratic BS on others but absolutely detest it being inflicted on them.

 

[flywheel]

Keep them lot at arms length unless your sure you don't have bats anywhere

 

[Danllan]

Just had a request to allow access for a bat survey. They have permission on neighbouring property and have asked if they can access our fields/woodland in case the bats they are tracking go onto our land.

Am I potentially going to give some quango a stick to beat me with if they track the bats onto our land/farmyard?

It hard enough getting any development done here anyway.

I'm not anti environment/nature etc but could do without the place ending up as a SSSI or some other ballache

If you don't need them to come in just say no, politely.

 

[Muddyroads]

It would depend on who they are and what they want the information for. I encourage surveys here, originally as a benchmarking exercise, now as a measure of what our farming system supports. Through this I’ve been able to prove that by increasing the amount and variety of food we produce here, we’ve also improved the amount of wildlife that the farm supports. However, we’re not looking at property development.

 

[theboytheboy]

Thanks, I think I will politely decline.

It's a wildlife Trust surveying in neighbouring land.

Ultimately they can walk through the farm and farmyard along a bridleway that joins a footpath and theres not much I can do about that.

 

[thorpe]

we had a company in contact wanting to do a wildlife survy on our land for a neighbour, told um we want the £££ as you are being paid to do the survy, never heard from em again!

 

[Doing it for the kids]

No upsides, lots of downsides potentially

We haves Homes England forcing themselves upon us. Nothing we can do to stop them it seems