Kenilworth planning roundup: 1,000 student flats, hundreds of homes and Bear Grylls
Here are the biggest local planning stories from the past week.
New Homes Plan
A housing developer will need to produce an 'environmental impact assessment' (EIA) before it can progress with plans for 330 homes.
Taylor Wimpey has been told by Warwick District Council (WDC) it must produce the EIA before a full planning application is submitted for the development off Aylesbury Road, Hockley Heath.
Plans show the 14.4 hectare plot - which covers three fields - would also have a series of footpaths and cycleways created.
Students Flats Revealed
More than 1,000 new student bedrooms in four multi-storey blocks are to be created once a 'difficult to let' office complex has been demolished.
The majority of the premises at Mercia Business Village, in Torwood Close, near Warwick University, are either vacant or on short-term lets.
The owners of many of those properties have backed the plan, which the developer says will create 450 construction and supply jobs.
But not everyone was in favour of the scheme when it came before Coventry City Council's planning committee. A spokesman from the Coventry Society quoted from a report which said there was a surplus of student places elsewhere in the city.
Bear Grylls
A former £20 million family attraction will revert back to being exhibition halls after permission was granted by planners.
Bear Grylls Adventure at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre closed in December 2024 after six years.
Merlin Entertainments – who ran the centre for thrill seekers – blamed "commercial challenges" and the lasting financial effects following the Covid pandemic.
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