News in Kenilworth

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Warwickshire County Council is currently consulting residents for their views on an update to the Local Transport Plan. With the questionnaire closing on March 18 we have broken down the key points of the consultation for our readers.

WCC currently has a transport plan in place, running between 2011 and 2026, however it has said that "the document has become outdated. It is too static; meaning it is not adaptive to the changes in transport, social and environmental trends.

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Could Warwick District Council's decision to remove recycling banks actually increase the fly-tipping it is intending to stop? That is the question being asked by some Kenilworth residents this week.

At the beginning of 2021 WDC announced that all recycling banks in the district were to be removed as a result of fly-tipping and vandalism making the operating costs too high.

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MP for Kenilworth and Southam Jeremy Wright has said that his support for a new Gigafactory located at Coventry Airport comes "not without condition" as he considers the impact for local people.

It was announced in February that planning permission was being sought for the factory to be built on green belt land near the airport, land which falls within the Kenilworth and Southam constituency.

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Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe has been imprisoned in Iran since 2016 (Image via MrZeroPage License: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nazanin_and_Richard_Ratcliffe_.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0)

When I was elected Mayor of Kenilworth last May I expressed the hope that very soon, and definitely during my Mayoral year, our government would negotiate the release of the British citizen Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe who has now been held hostage in Iran for more than 1,750 days.

Nazanin has close family relatives living not far from Kenilworth and she longs to come back to the UK, to be with her husband and young daughter.

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