Detailed plans for 179 houses to the south of Warwick have been signed off by council planners.

The houses will form the second part of The Asps development, between Europa Way and Banbury Road.

Ultimately the site will see 900 homes, a primary school and park and ride with up to 500 spaces built.

Taylor Wimpey has been granted a reserved matters application for its next part of the development which will see a mix of one, two, three and four-bed homes built.

Plans show there will be 82 affordable houses - 46 per cent.

The homes have been split between two sections of the development.

First is the 'Castle Park Boulevard' area which has been "inspired by the Broadway at Letchworth Garden City".

The rest fall under the 'Parkland Edge' area which will "provide a transition to the surrounding countryside and create a landscaped edge to the new community where lower density housing is interspersed with an organic, informal arrangement in a landscape setting".

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The application says trees to the north of the site will provide "an appropriate edge to the layout".

There will also be a series of footpaths to create an "accessible and permeable layout" as well as a play area and public open space.

Warwick District Council signed off on the application at the end of December.

The overall 900-house development was initially refused by Warwick District Council's planning committee in 2014 but was eventually given the go ahead by the Secretary of State two years later.

Whilst the council received the government's decision with "deep rooted disappointment" it has already granted permission for 476 houses in the first part of the development.

Phase two of the development has been split across two housing developers.

Bloor Homes is bringing forward the detailed plans for the next 245 homes. This application is yet to be determined.

See the Taylor Wimpey application.

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