Here are the biggest planning stories from the last week in and around Warwick.

Demolitions

New photos have shown the quick progress of Severn Trent in demolishing some homes on the edge of a Warwick street.

Works to knock down the buildings on Priory Mews started last month, some two years after safety concerns around the road were first raised.

Thoughts to be subsidence caused by a burst water main, there have been safety concerns around the road since February 2022.

Read the story here.

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Public Meeting

Another public meeting on the major roadworks in Hatton has been called by Warwickshire County Council.

Residents have been invited to a meeting on Tuesday 20 February to find out more about the works on Birmingham Road which will see traffic lights in place for 10 months.

The project to widen the road, build a pedestrian crossing point, and to improve footways, cycleways, drainage and street lights were due to begin in October but started at the end of last November.

Read more here.

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Blue Plaque

District planners have signed off on a proposal to install a blue plaque celebrating the work of a renowned stained glass maker from Warwick.

Warwick Town Council has been given listed building consent to memorialise the work of William Holland, on the Old Glassworks building on Priory Road.

The house itself was built by Holland in 1847, and included a glass workshop where he employed 26 men and boys, before it was taken over by the Warwickshire Yeomanry in 1913.

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