With new houses on the various developments along Glasshouse Lane already up for sale, 1,500 houses are currently either under construction or awaiting planning approval across Kenilworth

More applications for new estates are also expected to be submitted in the coming months.

There have also been a number of reported break ins at new-build houses across the town, with kitchen appliance and boilers taken by thieves.

Southcrest Rise

Miller Homes is underway building 99 homes along Glasshouse Lane, which have already gone on sale.

The first houses were completed in July and some have already been sold.

During a site visit in October, 11 dwellings were complete and a further 36 were under construction.

The whole development is not expected to be complete until 2025.

Prices on site start at £325,000 for a two-bed home and go up to over £1 million for a five-bed detached home.

The 'Oxford' show home at Southcrest Rise (image by James Smith)

Stoneleigh View

Further along Glasshouse Lane, Vistry, Bovis and Linden Homes are on site building the initial phases of their planning permission for 620 dwellings.

This includes 248 affordable homes that will be taken on by Warwick District Council.

The first tenants have now moved into the new council houses being built.

New tenant Edilay said: "I have no words to express how grateful I am for everything that Warwick District Council has done for me.

"I have always dreamed of having a new house, and the day I signed the contract and received my keys was the most beautiful thing that happened in my life."

Developers have also been given permission to delay the building of a new roundabout for the development.

The 620 homes will wrap around the new Kenilworth School and the Woodside Hotel (image via planning application)

Land at Thickthorn

Charles Church is building the first 98 homes at its Kenilworth Gate site - the first phase of the major development.

During a site visit in October, nine homes were complete and 78 were under construction.

Town councillors have also raised concerns about the connections to the development, but Charles Church says better pedestrian access is in the works.

The first plots are now up for sale with housing ranging from £355,000 to £885,000.

An outline planning application for the remaining 452 homes, retail and employment land and community centre remains under consideration with the district council.

WDC is continuing to look at opportunities for attracting employment uses to the land allocated for business.

Charles Church will eventually build 550 homes on the land at Thickthorn between Leamington Road and Glasshouse Lane

Kenilworth Rugby Club

An outline planning application to build 220 homes on the current Kenilworth Rugby Club ground from Bloor Homes is still yet to be considered by the council.

Kenilworth Town Council has objected to the application, raising concerns about access to the site - as well as other issues.

Meanwhile at the club's new site off Warwick Road - which already has planning permission - work is already underway relocating newts to the three new ponds. This needs to be completed before any work building the new ground can begin.

The club has recently launched an "urgent" crowdfunding campaign to make sure it can "continue to survive".

Kenilworth Wardens

The district council's housing company is looking set to develop Kenilworth Wardens' current ground into houses and help the club move across town to Castle Farm.

In September cabinet members voted unanimously in favour of a plan to spend £3 million to help the community club move from its Glasshouse Lane ground and create a new facility.

The project will then see Warwick District Council's own housing company - Milverton Homes - develop the current ground into 110 houses through its joint venture with Vistry Linden Limited.

While councillors gave their support to the scheme, there were a number of warnings issued about the complexity of the scheme.

And the council's overview and scrutiny committee asked that a review into the management of the club and its finances be completed before the project moves ahead.

The development sites to the east side of Kenilworth (image via Warwick District Council)

The Pavilions

The report simply says: "The Pavilions comprises of 125 dwellings in total.

"The site is virtually complete with the final seven plots under construction."

Kenilworth School

With the new school on Glasshouse Lane now up and running, the two sites at Leyes Lane and Rouncil Lane are now being prepared to be handed over.

The schools will ultimately be developed into houses, with public information events on the developments having already been held.

The sites must be completely stripped before they can be handed over for redevelopment.

Planning applications are currently being drawn up.

But with work hoped to get underway over the coming months, local MP Sir Jeremy Wright has started to hold meetings with Severn Trent and the Environment Agency following multiple complaints of smelly drains along Rouncil Lane.

Speaking at the most recent Kenilworth Town Council meeting, Cllr Richard Dickson said this issue needs to be sorted before more houses are built in the area.

Woodside Hotel

Prior approval to demolish the former manor house was granted earlier this year, while a separate planning application to build 55 homes on the site is currently being considered.

Sir Jeremy has also objected to the latter application, saying there is no need for more houses in the town.

"Although developers would always like permission to build on more sites, I do not see the justification for more housing land being required in and around Kenilworth, in addition to the very substantial development underway or in prospect under the local plan's provisions," he said. 

"If anything, what has transpired since the local plan was written has been significant challenge to the accuracy of the numbers of houses said to be needed in this part of Warwick district to accommodate the needs of Coventry which cannot be met within the city itself. 

"If justified, such challenge means the local plan provides for too many houses, not too few. 

"The case for additional housing land being needed or justified in the Kenilworth area has not, in my view, been convincingly made and, again, surely the point of the local plan process is to define that need and limit other development outside the sites incorporated in the Plan?"

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