Smokehouse Bat Surveys
Photo: Endoscoping at the smokehouse
Location: Achiltibuie, Ullapool – Northwest Highlands
Client: Summer Isles Enterprises Ltd
The Project: Summer Isles Enterprises are in the process of acquiring the Achiltibuie Smokehouse – the former residence of a local business which once was an important source of local employment within the community but now lays in a dilapidated state - from the Coigach Community Development Company on the condition that they restore or rebuild the property. The aim for Summer Isles Enterprises is to repurpose the site and build a new multi-purpose building that will support their operations on Tanera Mòr and provide several jobs for the local community.
Our Role: Over the years that the Smokehouse building has been unoccupied it has become attractive to bats and now hosts a medium-sized pipistrelle maternity colony through the summer months. Therefore, Atlantic58 have been contracted to carry out a Preliminary Roost Assessment and the subsequent Emergence surveys and reporting to support an application for a NatureScot ‘Work Affecting Bats’ licence, which will allow Summer Isles Enterprises to demolish the existing structure and construct a new fit-for-purpose structure which includes a compensatory, or replacement, maternity bat loft. Atlantic58 are offering further support by providing ECoW supervision for the deconstruction of the original building.
Outcome: Ongoing
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