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

Travellers

Parish councillors have raised a series of concerns as they objected to plans to create a new traveller site on the outskirts of Warwick.

A part-retrospective application for the site along Henley Road near the M40 was submitted earlier this year after Warwick District Council (WDC) enforced a temporary stop notice for the development.

Building work had begun in May before planning permission was granted, and the local authority has since issued another stop notice.

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'Unsuitable' Homes

Yet another planning application has been put forward to Warwick District Council to turn part of a Kenilworth industrial buidling into a vets.

'Kenilworth Vets' has already been given planning permission for a series of changes at the Bridge Works to repurpose the former furniture workshop.

Warwick District Council has signed off on new signage, entrance, doors and glazing.

But now Kenilworth Vets has submitted a 'change of use application' to the council, asking for the unit to no longer be designated for 'light industrial' use.

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HS2 Bridge

HS2 engineers have completed the final operation to move two railway viaducts into place over the M42/M6 link roads in Warwickshire, making them the first viaduct structures to be built at Delta Junction.

The 'push' to move the 158-metre-long 'West Link Viaduct' into its final position over both westbound and eastbound motorway link roads took a total of 11 hours over the weekend.

HS2 Ltd, its main works contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) and National Highways worked together to have the motorway link roads reopened 6.5 hours ahead of schedule.

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