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

Community Centre

A new community centre in Kenilworth may not be built until at least 2028, the district council has confirmed.

Town councillors have recently expressed concern at the lack of news on the development which will form part of the Kenilworth Gate housing development.

Full planning permission has now been granted for nearly 550 houses off the Leamington Road, with construction well underway on the first phase of the new estate.

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£16m Mistake

The deputy leader of Warwickshire County Council has apologised for revealing confidential information on a project dubbed the 'bridge to nowhere' – but he could not spare highways officials a verbal battering. 

Cllr Peter Butlin last week let the cat out of the bag over a £16 million-plus fund set aside to cater for cost overruns on a highways project over the A46 at Stoneleigh junction, near Kenilworth. 

The much-delayed £38 million project to install a second bridge, meaning a roundabout can be created to increase capacity and road safety, is now overdue by longer than the works were initially supposed to take. 

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Councillor Back Bull

Parish councillors have thrown their support behind a pub landlord as he fights to keep a giant bull mural from the side of his 400-year-old inn.

Martin Peel paid a local artist £1,200 to have the 8ft mural emblazoned on the side of The Bull's Head in Wootton Wawen, but has since been told by Stratford-on-Avon District Council to remove it.

Mr Peel has submitted planning applications in a bid to keep the artwork, with Wootton Wawen Parish Council adding in a note of support to the work.

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