Here is a roundup of the biggest decisions that have been made by the local councils in the last month.

And for more local planning decisions, keep an eye out for our weekly updates published every weekend.

Kenilworth Town Council

Kenilworth councillors have welcomed the reopening of a local play area this spring after months of work on site.

The town council is making moves to protect a "key part" of Kenilworth heritage after it was recently left in a "poor state of repair".

Ongoing frustrations about the number of road closures and the apparent lack of coordination over them has been fed back to the HS2 commissioner.

Town councillors have agreed to give up to £15,000 for a new lift to be built at the Priory Theatre.

Plans for 180 new houses in Kenilworth have been met with objections from town councillors who say the site is not suitable for a new estate and local infrastructure is already strained.

Councillors have hailed the success of a new path which connects Kenilworth School to a new housing estate and stops students having to walk along a section of road with no pavement.

Warwick District Council

A mobile dog grooming business has been given the green light to tour the district and set up shop at various spots in the local area.

Councillors continue to push for reassurances that parking problems will not mar the opening of Kenilworth's new swimming pools.

No Mow May is set to return for a fourth year to Warwick district.

Warwick District Council is at risk of losing control of decisions on large planning applications having had too many permissions granted on appeal.

Another potential 'new settlement' has been put forward for the new South Warwickshire Local Plan.

A clean-up of the A46 has resulted in the collection of littered waste weighing around the same size as two double-decker buses.

Warwickshire County Council

Leader George Finch faced questions over whether enough focus is being placed on the volume of children who go missing from Warwickshire County Council's care.

The Conservative who voted to remove Reform UK's George Finch as leader of Warwickshire County Council has been kicked out of his group for three months.

Reform UK has confirmed a new deputy leader as the previous one stepped down to "focus exclusively on his finance & property portfolio".

The county council is celebrating "great news for bus travel in Warwickshire" as an independent survey has placed the county's bus service as the best in the country.