Here are the biggest local planning stories from the past week.

Five Guys and KFC

Two new fast food vendors are soon to be built in South Warwickshire, as works to demolish a former Frankie & Benny's get underway.

Planning permission to create two 'drive thrus' at Tachbrook Park Drive was signed off by Warwick District Council last year, with the plans seeing the former restaurant flattened.

The application - first submitted in 2021 - said the units have ben designed for Five Guys and KFC.

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Traveller Site

Multiple objections have been made to plans to create a new traveller site on the outskirts of Warwick.

Philip Brown Associates Limited has put forward a scheme to Warwick District Council (WDC) to turn an agricultural field along Henley Road near the M40 into a new base for 12 families.

The application says the residents - who now own the site - do not currently have a lawful place to park their caravans, and the new site would allow them a permanent home.

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Hatton Campaign Begins

Residents in Hatton are taking action against proposals to build 4,500 new homes in the village.

The campaign group Keep Hatton Station Rural (KHSR) has been launched in response to Hill Residential's proposals for the huge development, which could also include two new primary schools and a secondary school.

The proposals - put forward in partnership with landowners the Arkwright Family - have come as part of work towards the new South Warwickshire Local Plan (SWLP), which will decide where some 35,000 homes will be built in the south of the county by 2050.

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