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

Cricket Club

A village cricket club has applied for planning permission for a new netted practice area in a bid to boost its junior section.

Lapworth Cricket Club has said its "thriving" junior setup is limited by its "poor training infrastructure" after its existing nets were damaged in a storm in 2024.

If approved, the application to Warwick District Council would see a new all-weather two-lane enclosed netted practice area built at the Old Warwick Road site.

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Roundabout Roundabout!

Advertising boards will go up on three roundabouts in Balsall Common despite concerns they distract drivers.

Applicant Steve Green of CP Media originally submitted the plan last May for four signs on the Kenilworth Road and Station Road roundabout; four on the Dengate Drive and Chapel Drive roundabout and three on the Kenilworth Road and Hallmeadow Road roundabout.

The proposal was for the signs measuring 1.2 metres by 50cm on aluminium posts be placed in a position facing each of entrance roads to the village roundabouts.

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Restoration Pulled

An application for a "site restoration scheme" on land around the HS2 line near Kenilworth has been pulled.

In October last year the high speed rail developer submitted a scheme to Warwick District Council to return the land at Kingswood Farmhouse, Dalehouse Lane to how it looked before construction began.

The application said HS2 took over the site in July 2019.

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