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

School to Houses

Plans to turn a former school building in Warwick into four townhouses have been thrown out by district planners.

Warwick District Council (WDC) has already granted permission for Priory Block on Chapel Street to be demolished to make way for more homes, as part of King's High School's move to Myton Road.

However, developer Wake Green Limited had applied for fresh planning permission to keep the three-storey building and repurpose it for new houses, as well as to build three extra dwellings to the rear of the site.

Read the story here.

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Roadworks

More road works to unlock new housing to the south of Warwick have been approved this week with a £1.5 million junction set to replace a roundabout. 

Warwickshire County Council, the authority that deals with highways, rubber stamped the project's addition to its capital works programme with the roundabout that serves Myton Road from the Banbury Road, Warwick, set to make way. 

The scheme will see a signalised junction replace it at the junction between Banbury Road and Myton Road, creating a widened two-lane exit onto the southbound Banbury Road. 

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Leper Hospital Moves Forward

A council-led project to turn some of Warwick's most important historic buildings into homes is now underway.

Led and part funded by Warwick District Council in partnership with the West Midlands Historic Buildings Trust, the development of St Michael's Place will see the grade II listed Master's House and St Michael's Chapel in Saltisford "sensitively and sympathetically" converted for residential use.

Over the past few weeks, preparation has began on site, with work including geophysical examinations and the installation of test trenches for future service provision.

Read more here.

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