Isn't there an Aviation-specialist solicitor, with a pair, who is willing to threaten court for malicious and vexatious refusal, misuse of public power, etc.
This has dragged on for a long and (for the OP) expensive time.
Given the self-evident adaptation of virtually all wildlife , to any sort of industrialisation in and around their habitats, would indicate that there is an agenda at issue here, being waged with Public money.
Plenty of Corvids? on motorway cleanup duties, which include foxes, hedgehogs etc. as well as the odd domestic creatures.
I assume these useless politicians have never heard of foxes , rats, moles, badgers and the like in the urban environment? Never parked their car under a tree ,overnight and retrieved it covered in bird-crap? never heard a dawn chorus from their urban dwelling?
Their objections make a substantial case for sacking them...too thick to assess an application(or there's the afore -mentioned hidden agenda, somewhere.
They need calling-out on it!.