Short article in yesterday's Daily Telegraph, apparently work in the "Road Dahl Wood" has been halted due to concerns about bats. This is despite a license being granted for the work by Natural England. Work has been suspended at least until late May, when the court case is due to be heard.
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The "Roahl Dahl Wood" (Jones Hill Wood) is not actually the wood that inspired The Fantastic Mr Fox - JHW is 2 miles from where Dahl lived in Great Missenden, (and literally in the middle of nowhere.) The actual "TFMF wood" was thought to be on his doorstep (according to the Dahl museum) in Gt. Miss. Linking JHW to Dahl is propaganda invented by HS2Rebellion and swallowed hook line and sinker by a press that is either too lazy to check or complicit in the propaganda campaign.
HS2Rebellion and/or Green Party's Mark Kier (of West Drayton, not sure what he's doing breaking lockdown up at Gt. Miss.) have launched a legal action against Natural England claiming that they should not have granted HS2 Ltd a license to deal with the bats in Jones Hill Wood. (I'm not sure on what grounds, I haven't read the court documents.) Pending that outcome, a temporary injunction has been granted to put a halt to some of the HS2 works at JHW.
I doubt this will have any significant outcome, but it will allow HS2 opponents to puff their chests out for a few week and claim a victory - until it gets to court and gets thrown out. The only profit will be for the lawyers - maybe some civil servants will need to tick a few extra boxes or perhaps some additional mitigations will be ordered.
Meanwhile, the works on the rest of the line (mostly sans protestors) are carrying on.