Natural England Bat Advice Service

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Bat Advice Service Lot 1: The Bat Advice Service will provide specialist advice, primarily to householders, through a telephone, email, and website service and, when necessary, through visits carried out by Natural England’s network of licensed Volunteer Bat Roost Visitors (VBRVs).<br/>The main purpose of visits is to protect bats by reassuring people affected (or distressed) by them, to advise on timing (avoidance) and methods for building maintenance works (such as timber treatment, replacement of missing roof slates/tiles but not development) and to reduce the likelihood of exclusions (and consequent threat to bat conservation and licence requirements). However, there will be a small number of cases where exclusion is justified, and a licensing route is available for these cases.