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

Care Home Returns?

A Victorian villa could be turned back into a care home if plans are signed off by Warwick District Council.

Westgrove House Ltd has applied for planning permission to convert Clarence House on Warwick New Road from a 23-bed house in multiple occupation (HMO) to a 21-bed residential care home.

The application submitted to the local authority said the property was converted from an 18-bed care home to its current use in 2016.

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A46 Junction Crisis

An extra £16 million has been set aside for an already over-budget and much-delayed project to build a new bridge and roundabout at the A46 Stoneleigh junction - and that figure could rise yet further.

Warwickshire County Council (WCC) is two-and-a-half years behind on the major infrastructure project which was due to cost £38 million.

The local authority had already revealed the project is £4.7 million over budget, but at today's cabinet meeting, deputy leader Cllr Peter Butlin revealed the council has earmarked a huge amount of extra funding as the project remains in the balance.

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MOD Development

Parish councillors have doubled down on their objections to controversial plans for 34 new homes on a piece of land off Oakdene Crescent, Hatton.

Altus Homes and Morro Partnerships have applied for planning permission for the development on the former Ministry of Defence (MOD) base.

An application submitted to Warwick District Council said the site will be filled with a mix of one to four-bed affordable homes.

Read more here.

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