A GRAND MEDIEVAL DAY OUT AT KENILWORTH CASTLE

Name: A GRAND MEDIEVAL DAY OUT AT KENILWORTH CASTLE
Start: 2023-04-30 00:00:00
End: 2023-05-01 00:00:00
Location: A GRAND MEDIEVAL DAY OUT AT KENILWORTH CASTLE

Kenilworth Castle

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30th Apr 2023 - 1st May 2023

UNTIL Monday 1st May

Take a trip back in time to medieval Kenilworth Castle over the bank holiday weekend. Visitors to the 900 year old castle will be transported back to Kenilworth's medieval prime with re-enactors throughout the grounds. Soak up the sights and smells of the living history village and experience the hustle and bustle of a medieval castle in its prime.

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Certain parts of this event will take place just outside of the castle walls with limited wheelchair access and some uneven terrain. If you would like to talk to us about your specific requirements before visiting, please contact the team on 01926 852078 during site opening hours.

As well as our Grand Medieval Day Out, there's so much more to enjoy at Kenilworth Castle! Don't Miss:

Take in the views from Elizabeth I's private rooms for the first time in centuries
Have fun with the family-friendly displays in our interactive exhibition bringing Kenilworth's past to life
Get hands-on with history and try on our dressing up clothes
Look out for the marble fountain and bird-filled aviary in the one-of-a-kind garden
Unwind with a visit to the Stables Tearoom

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Design details for a new 50-metre bridge which will see Dalehouse Lane closed for over a year have been signed off by district planners.

HS2 has been given the final green light for the structure which will carry the busy road over the new rail line.

The works, which will cause the road into Kenilworth to close for up to 14 months, will eventually see a three-span overbridge built.

The HS2 Act decrees the bridge will be built at some point, with Warwick District Council only able to comment on certain aspects of the design - which have now been signed off.

A three-metre wide cycleway will also be integrated into the structure.

Signing off on the plans, a council report said: "Officers are satisfied that there are no alternatives required and the proposal is not considered to result in harm to the local environment or amenity, nature conservation or archaeology."

Kenilworth Town Council has criticised HS2 yet again over the designs, stating the council was not consulted on the proposals before they were submitted.

Town councillors also criticised the lack of clarity in the planning application.

"There were very few plans or diagrams for members to reference that related to planning aspects," the council's objection said.

"Members did not find the engineering pre-construction drawings helpful in determining this application."

Plans show the bridge will be 50.6 metres long and 12.5 metres wide.

Embankments will be created on either side to raise the road over the bridge.

"The proposed approach embankments are to be steep-sloped reinforced earthworks," the application explained.

"The landscape earthworks are proposed for landscape integration and abut the approach embankments on the southern side of the proposed overbridge either side of the HS2 tracks."

Plans show on the western side of the bridge the earthworks for the cutting will be 94 metres long and 1.8 metres high.

On the other side they will be 118 metres long and 1.2 metres high.

The major closure of Dalehouse Lane is not expected until early 2025.

See the full application here.

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Plans to build a new Lidl supermarket in Balsall Common have been thrown out by council planners as an application for an Aldi on the opposite side of the road was given the green light.

Lidl's plans would have seen a new supermarket with 1,411 square metres of retail space, a 120-space car park and a new 'half-roundabout-type' junction created to the eastern side of Kenilworth Road.

But planning officers at Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (SMBC) refused the application in October, saying it would be inappropriate use of the green belt.

"The proposed development amounts to inappropriate development in the green belt," a council report said.

"This causes harm by definition, harm to openness and is contrary to one of the five purposes of including land in the green belt, namely encroachment.

"It is not considered that the circumstances put forward in support of the proposed development clearly outweigh this harm, and any other harm, and therefore they do not amount to the very special circumstances that would need to be demonstrated."

Planners did recognise the development would create 40 extra jobs and said there was no viable alternative site in the local area.

They also said the shop would provide "enhanced consumer choice for the residents of Balsall Common".

But the report continued: "The applicant has failed to demonstrate that the proposed access arrangements would not result in an unacceptable increase in delay to vehicles or a reduction in safety for any users of the highway."

Berkswell Parish Council and Balsall Parish Council both objected to the application, raising concerns about the green belt and saying the access off Kenilworth Road would be unsafe.

In its application Lidl argued: "This proposal will be constructed to a high quality with sensitivity to the local environment, employing contemporary and sustainable design and materials to create an attractive, high quality building which is appropriate to its surrounding built environment."

But planning permission was refused last month.

The decision came just days before councillors at SMBC gave the green light to competitor Aldi to demolish a former service station building on the former Edwins Autos site.

In that application planners also said it was harmful to the green belt which most of the site is on.

But a council report presented to councillors said: "Having considered the totality of the benefits of the proposed development against the totality of its harms, the benefits do clearly outweigh the extent of harms.

"The very special circumstances necessary to justify the proposal do exist."

See the full Lidl application here.

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