Plans for 90 new homes in Warwickshire village approved

Councillors on Stratford District Council’s planning committee on Wednesday evening voted in favour of granting permission to Barwood Homes to build the seven-hectare site close to Southam Road, which will also include small-scale employment and some open space.

The firm has carried out studies to consider the impact of the development on roads, drainage, visual amenity and landscape character and it says that trees will be planted and that there is potential for a woodland and wildflower edge around the site.

It has estimated that the development will increase the population of the village by 203 and create 135 construction jobs.

Although council planners encouraged councillors to vote in favour of the plan, many villagers are unhappy about the prospect of such a large development coming to Kineton.

The village’s parish council chairman David Gosling said: “Putting that number of houses in one go in one place will mean that Kineton will start to lose its village feel. We will be turned into another dormitory town.

“We don’t want to have a community that is built on the edge of the village but which has nothing to do with it.

“The only footpath out of the development leads people away from the village. The people living there would be tied to the seat of their cars.”