Charlcombe

Local toads are to be helped across a busy road at Charlcombe Lane in Bath, as part of a national campaign to help save the common toad bufo bufo from disappearing in the region. Toads are fussy about where they breed and migrate back to their ...

More than 1,000 amphibians have been helped across the road in an unusual rescue operation on the edge of Bath. The Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group has had dedicated volunteers patrolling Charlcombe Lane every night from late January to mid-April.

Teams of volunteers are preparing to mount their annual operation to help toads cross a road on the edge of Bath. It is the 12th year that Charlcombe Lane in Lansdown has been closed to through traffic for six weeks, to make it safer for the amphibians ...

A road in Bath has been closed for six weeks to help amorous toads to return to their breeding ground in safety. The Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group said it had helped about 21,000 toads, newts and frogs with their hazardous journeys over the past 11 years.

The company behind it and the council had said planning permission was not needed for the outhouses at Meadow Farm near Charlcombe. But a judge ruling the council acted unlawfully in approving the proposal. The 20.5 hectares of land, formerly owned ...

The group challenged decisions made by Bath and North East Somerset Council allowing large-scale poultry rearing at Meadow Farm, Woolley Lane, Charlcombe, which lies within the Cotswold "area of outstanding natural beauty". Today a judge ruled the ...