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

New Industrial Estate

Councillors hope to have retained a trump card despite voting through in-principle permission for an unpopular warehousing development on the edge of Warwick.

Midlands Land Portfolio Limited applied for outline planning consent for storage, distribution and industrial use of 8.8 hectares of land to the east of Stratford Road, next to junction 15 of the M40, Warwick. 

Approval was voted through unanimously with the building heights to be judged when the detailed application comes forward.

Read the story here.

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New Traffic Lights

Traffic lights are to be introduced on the Greys Mallory roundabout to the south of Warwick and Leamington. 

Warwickshire County Council today (October 13) approved the £950,000 scheme which forms part of infrastructure plans to deal with new housing in the area. 

Developers Taylor Wimpey and Bloor Homes have obtained planning permission to build up to 900 homes, a primary school, a new local centre and a park and ride facility for up to 500 vehicles from Europa Way and Banbury Road. 

Read more here.

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Pub's Philanthropy

A local pub has said it is committed to pay for vital repair work at a major historical landmark in Warwick, after a fresh application for the project was signed off.

Permission to rebuild an 80-metre-long stretch of boundary wall between the Saxon Mill and the Grade II listed Guy's Cliffe Park and Garden was signed off last year.

But the Coventry Road pub - which is owned by Mitchells and Butler - has now been given then green light for a second application which will see less invasive work completed on the wall.

Read the story here.

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