Green Hairstreak butterfly stands in the way of KCC’s £250m regeneration of the A229 Blue Bell Hill between Maidstone and Chatham

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Green Hairstreak butterfly stands in the way of KCC’s £250m regeneration of the A229 Blue Bell Hill between Maidstone and Chatham

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UK Nature and Environment@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months ago

‘To destroy this wildlife for the sake of a road would be bonkers’

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A rare butterfly could scupper plans for a £250m major road overhaul.

Plans for a £250m upgrade of a major road network could be disrupted by a butterfly.

Last week, Kent County Council revealed plans to improve the A229 Blue Bell Hill which connects Chatham to Maidstone.

The plans contain a raft of new slip roads and roundabout enhancements, but one of the measures is for an additional lane and a new slip road on the southern-bound carriageway heading to Maidstone.

That would plunge it through the habitat of the Green Hairstreak butterfly.

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