Rules which limited how long guests could stay at a Kenilworth aparthotel have been relaxed by council planners.

The Rose & Rampart opened in the town centre earlier this year, after months of work renovating a former cocktail bar.

Warwick District Council last year granted planning permission for 'The Kenilworth' on Warwick Road to be turned into an aparthotel and a house.

The scheme - which was unanimously backed by the council's planning committee - was for number 61 Warwick Road to be turned back into a house, while 59 and 63 would serve as accommodation.

Last year, the council said numbers 59 and 63 could only be used for short periods of time "with the maximum length of a single stay in any event to be limited to six weeks in any calendar year".

Now, the owners have been given permission for this to be relaxed to allow the units to be used for more than the six weeks previously agreed.

"This will allow increased flexibility to make the proposed development financially viable," an application to the council said.

The original planning application said the six week rule was because "permanent residential use would result in an unacceptable level of amenity".

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Plans were signed off earlier this month.

A council report said: "By reason of its siting, scale, design and materials, the proposed development is considered to have overcome concerns regarding impact to neighbouring and future occupiers' amenity.

"Furthermore, the proposals are not considered to have an adverse impact in relation to visual amenity, residential amenity, ecology, flooding, parking and access or climate change and mitigation."

When the Rose & Rampart opened earlier this year, owner David Burges said the boutique accommodation had given the buildings a new purpose "while keeping everything that makes them special".

Permission has also already been granted for new signs to be installed at the listed building, with the new business due to be called the Rose & Rampart Hotel.

See the latest application here.