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The club has been asked to show how it would protect the local bat population while it builds the new Stamford Bridge stadium / Herzog & de Meuron

Chelsea's Stamford Bridge plans could be stalled by fears for local bats

by Kim Megson | 26 Aug 2016

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Chelsea Football Club’s plans to build one of the largest stadiums in England have hit a stumbling block – the local population of endangered bats. The club submitted its plans for the £500m (US$660m, €584m) project to London’s Hammersmith and Fulham council last year, but have been asked to provide more evidence of how they will protect the nearby grade I-listed Brompton cemetery and its population of the nocturnal mammals.

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