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

Industrial Site

Plans for a major new industrial building near Coventry Airport are moving forward as a new planning application has been submitted.

Outline plans for the major commercial site at Gateway South were signed off for a second time by Warwick District Council in January, with some 37 hectares of land to be developed.

Now applicant SEGRO has submitted detailed plans - called a 'reserved matters' application - for one of the large industrial units on the site.

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Farm Shop Scheme

Council planners have given the green light for a local farm shop to be extended.

Warwick District Council has approved a planning application for Gazabo Nursery at Brook Farm.

Plans will see a single-storey extension built at the Stoneleigh Road farm shop as well as a package sewage treatment plant built.

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Trees Coming Down

Just two trees have been saved by council planners who have given a housing developer permission to cut down a number of dead trees at a new housing estate in Kenilworth.

Multiple residents had objected to Persimmon Homes' application for Kenilworth Gate but Warwick District Council has now signed off on some of the works.

Initially the developer had asked to fell 11 trees on Leamington Road but has been given permission for only nine to be removed.

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