Kenilworth planning roundup: K2L, school sites and bridge to nowhere
Here are the biggest local planning stories from the past week.
K2L a 'low priority'
The Kenilworth to Leamington Cycleway and other cycle links in the county are a 'low' priority for the new county council administration, its new leader has said.
The six-kilometre route has been hit with significant delays but could now be completed within the next two years.
Cllr Finch remarked that, as an administration, the council considers cycleways to be a low priority.
School Sites
The former Kenilworth School sites have cost the district council £7 million while they have sat empty, a councillor has claimed.
Amid questions on the Leyes Lane and Rouncil Lane sites at this week's Warwick District Council (WDC) meeting, Cllr Richard Hales urged the leadership to prioritise bringing forward the much-delayed housing plans for the two plots which have been empty since the school moved in September 2023.
"In the two years since the school has moved, this has cost this administration £7 million, that is £120 per household across the district, whether they live in Bishop's Itchington, Lapworth, Warwick town centre, Radford," he said.
Bridge to Nowhere
The leader of Warwickshire County Council has vowed to "make sure we get a better deal" on the overdue and over-budget A46 'Bridge to Nowhere' near Kenilworth.
Cllr George Finch, whose party took control at Shire Hall in May, described the inherited project as a "poisoned chalice" and suggested "we may have been failed" by the Conservative councillors in charge before them.
At Thursday's meeting of the cabinet – the Reform UK panel of councillors in charge of major service areas – Cllr Finch insisted "we cannot be wasting any more time" and that the matter would come to the next meeting of cabinet on Thursday, October 16, although political opponents were quick to jump on the absence of new transport and planning portfolio holder Cllr Jennifer Warren.
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