HS2 is planning to divert a stream near Kenilworth to make way for a new cutting and embankment for the high speed rail link.

Plans submitted to Warwick District Council for approval show it wants to create a 42 metre 'culvert' to carry the stream underneath the line at Broadwells Wood, near Crackley.

The stream, which is a tributary of Canley Brook, will be made to pass under a 989 metre embankment which forms part of the same application.

The embankment will rull alongside the Kenilworth Greenway (image via planning application)

"The culvert will allow water from the existing unnamed watercourse to flow beneath the HS2 line and into the realigned watercourse, north of the HS2 line," the application said. 

"The culvert will comprise a precast concrete box structure, with an approximate length of 42m excluding the inlet and outlet structures."

If approved, the embankment will stand eight metres high.

Two public rights of way would also have to be diverted for the scheme.

The application added: "No suitable alternative options were available due to the design constraints."

The HS2 Act stipulates the cutting will happen at some point, but the local authority must sign off on certain elements of the design.

See the full application here.

Designs for the proposed embankment (image via planning application)