🇬🇧 United Kingdom · 2025 · 🐾 Animals
900 metres long. Up to 10 metres high. For bats.
💸 Guess, then reveal the price
£95 million one bat shed
The bats did not ask for a luxury lounge. They got one anyway.
What actually happened
An estimate in 2019 prices for the Sheephouse Wood structure in Buckinghamshire. Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee questioned whether the balance between wildlife protection and cost was right.
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