Green light for 600-lodge leisure resort despite ‘significant adverse impact’ on biodiversity

The Afan Valley Adventure Resort, near Port Talbot, will be built on a former forestry plantation home to a nationally important population of nightjar birds and an “excellent” population of common lizards.

The council’s biodiversity officer said that the applicant’s mitigation and compensation proposals, as set out in its environmental statement, were “inadequate to address the impacts of the development”.