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

Airport Reaction

A resident said she could be driven from her home in a picture-postcard Midland village after extra night flights were approved at Birmingham Airport.

Hampton-in-Arden is mentioned in the Domesday Book and has been named one of the best places in the West Midlands to live.

But now well-heeled residents in the village, where homes sell for an average of nearly £460,000, face more overnight noise from the airport, which is less than four miles away.

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In the Dog House

Council planners have refused planning permission for the back garden of a Kenilworth home to be turned into a dog daycare business.

'Kenilwoof Canine Castle' had submitted an application for the change of use at the house on Turton Way, with the scheme also including a "summerhouse style building" to house the dogs and a secondary gate to make it harder for the pets to escape.

The application said the dogs would only be on site for three-and-a-half hours per day, with the operating times - Monday to Friday between 9am and 4pm - including pick up and drop off for the animals, and the dogs being taken off site for a countryside walk.

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Flood Defences

A new flood defence scheme along the A46 in South Warwickshire could help protect nearly 300 homes from flooding, according to the Environment Agency (EA).

EA has put forward plans around St John's Brook to Warwick District Council, with the scheme hoped to come to fruition in 2026.

Plans put forward to the local authority state there is a "very significant risk of flooding" from the brook at 271 homes in Warwick, particularly around Exham Close and Woodloes Estate.

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