Here are the biggest local planning stories from the past week.

Flats Plan to Progress?

Council planners have recommended a scheme to build five new flats in the centre of Warwick be approved, despite the objections of locals and the town council.

Corstorphine and Wright has applied for planning permission to demolish a shop used for selling second-hand cars to make way for a two and three-storey block of apartments  on the corner of Cross Street and Priory Road.

Councillors will make a decision on the application at next week’s Warwick District Council planning committee meeting, with a report from officers saying the scheme should be approved.

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Bridge to Nowhere

The leader of Warwickshire County Council has vowed to "make sure we get a better deal" on the overdue and over-budget A46 'Bridge to Nowhere' near Kenilworth.

Cllr George Finch, whose party took control at Shire Hall in May, described the inherited project as a "poisoned chalice" and suggested "we may have been failed" by the Conservative councillors in charge before them.

At Thursday's meeting of the cabinet – the Reform UK panel of councillors in charge of major service areas – Cllr Finch insisted "we cannot be wasting any more time" and that the matter would come to the next meeting of cabinet on Thursday, October 16, although political opponents were quick to jump on the absence of new transport and planning portfolio holder Cllr Jennifer Warren.

Read the full story here.

Myton Path Plans

Warwick District Council's Cabinet has agreed to move forward with two major community projects for the Fusilier Way area, south of Warwick.

The first is the creation of the Myton Path, a new walking and cycling route linking Myton Road and Fusiliers Way. 

The second is the construction of a new athletics track, which will replace the current facility at Edmondscote. 

The plans also include a new vehicle entrance at the back of Myton and Warwick Schools.

Read more here.

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