Full cost of HS2 work around Moxon’s bat tunnel will be £168m, says DfT

By Daniel Gayne2025-06-30T12:08:00

Source: HS2

Design alone said to cost £5.3m, although department said it could not identify exact price for structure itself

The section of HS2 around a controversial structure built to protect bats will be £216m in today’s prices.

A letter from the Department for Transport (DfT) to the chair of the public accounts committee set out the anticipated cost of the Sheephouse Wood bat mitigation structure.

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