Osprey Charging Network’s plans to demolish the Quadrant on Town Road in Hanley have been rejected by Stoke-on-Trent City Council due to the applicant failing to carry out a bat survey.
The company hoped to bulldoze the disused shopping unit, which formally housed Solaris tanning studio and Big & Tall Menswear, and install 16 electric vehicle chargers in its place.
However, Stoke-on-Trent City Council require bat checks to be conducted on vacant buildings before they can approve planning permission. Osprey has so far failed to determine whether or not bats are living in the vacant building.
The planning application was ‘not of a sufficient standard to enable the case officer…to fully assess the impacts of what is proposed’, according to the decision notice.
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