Years ago we had badger problems on our area, a small sett under the WCML Up Slow line, the bank subsided and a speed restriction was imposed. We were told that we had to build a new sett, and have the badger moved before we would be allowed to fill in the old one.
This was all rather pointless as the badger had been hit by a train some weeks before. The local maintenance gang had however buried the body, out of sight fearing trouble for me from the local badger watching group. Who had been investigating where the badger was moving about, and who we had to employ to move the badger out of its old sett. This was nice of the gang, but I then felt constrained not mention that I knew the badger was dead, just in case their cover up got them into trouble.
So we built the dead badger a luxury sett on the side of the embankment, buried nice and deep to keep him safe and warm. But for some strange reason the badger people were unable to get him to move into his new home, peanuts etc seeming to have lost their appeal.
The sett lay empty and unused for about ten years, I looked in the tunnel mouths each time I happend to walk past, but only saw grass and the occasional cobweb. Eventually some passing S&T men, saw the mound the sett was built in, liked the look of it and built a new location cupboard platform on it.