Councillors will once again be asked to make a decision on controversial plans for a 150-house estate in Hatton to use its temporary access for longer than originally planned.

Warwick District Council's (WDC) planning committee last month heard developer Taylor Wimpey "urgently" needs permission to use the junction created for its construction vehicles, to now allow new homeowners to access their properties at the Union View development.

When planning permission for the controversial development was granted, the developer was told new homeowners would have to access the estate off a new junction further along the Birmingham Road.

While some of the houses have now been completed and sold, work on the new turning for residents has only just started, with Hatton locals now facing 11 months of roadworks in the village.

Taylor Wimpey has now applied for permission to widen its construction traffic entrance to allow for both homeowners and contractors to enter the site.

A CGI impression to the changes to the Birmingham Road junction (image via planning application)

While district planners had originally suggested the plans be signed off, councillors said they wanted more information on how safe traffic would be around the site.

But now the application will go before the committee again next Wednesday (January 16).

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"The applicants have demonstrated that the temporary arrangements can provide an acceptable form of access for site users without being detrimental to highway safety and this has been considered by the Warwickshire County Council Highways Team who have raised no objection to the revised proposal," a council report said.

"Officers are satisfied that revisions would not result in any material change to the overall scheme and the limited period of the contingency highway measures is temporary and would have no resultant harm."

If approved, the plans would see bollards installed in the centre of the Birmingham Road to make the junction a left-in, left-out only turning.

Hatton Parish Council also objected to the application, meanwhile Cllr Peter Phillips said a decision should not be made until all the safety aspects had been considered.

"We are not here to serve the developer's urgent requirements," Cllr Phillips said at last month's meeting.

"They are taking a commercial risk. 

"And the planning committee should not be concerned with that risk and that is not a reason to hastily grant an application."