Flyer-friendly air base!
13th March 2018

A bat-friendly window designed and manufactured by WEST PORT has allowed a major housing project to go ahead at a former RAF base.

The Victory Fields development is the transformation of the site at Little Rissington, Gloucestershire, once home to the Red Arrows, into a collection of luxury homes. However, builders converting the Officers’ Mess building discovered that large numbers of bats in the attic. Bats and their roosts are protected by strict conservation legislation.

The bats had to be left with free run of the attic, but the building still needed extensive renovation. The result was a bat-friendly timber window incorporating a gap large enough for bats to fly in and out. Also, the attic space will require regular cleaning and observation by ecologists, so the window had to be designed to open like a door, allowing for easy access.

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