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

Night Flights

Plans to increase the number of night-time flights T Birmingham Airport will have a "significant" negative impact on Kenilworth residents, the town council has said.

Kenilworth Town Council has submitted an objection to the latest application from BHX which could allow for more arrivals and departures between 11.30pm and 6am.

The current arrangement allows for no more than 4,000 flights at night a year.

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Travellers

Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon district councils are being advised to allow travellers to stay on safe spots of land – and potentially provide them with bins and toilets.

A negotiated stopping policy has been advocated by RRR Consultancy, independent researchers who were commissioned by the councils to assess accommodation needs for gypsies, travellers, showpeople and those who live on boats.

The work was done to inform the emerging South Warwickshire Local Plan, which the councils are developing jointly to set out which land is used for development over the coming years.

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A report said that RRR's study "recommends" the policy.

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Housing Problems

The councillor in charge of planning at Warwick District Council insists little could have been done to prevent its "vulnerable" position on housing. 

The district's planning committee now has less power to refuse development plans after an inspector ruled it had overestimated the probable delivery of new homes over the next five years.

Authorities in charge of planning must be able to demonstrate a five-year land supply – sufficient land to build enough new homes, plus the probability that they will come forward in that timeframe – for local plans that lay out where development should take place to carry full weight. 

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