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Plans have gone in for 70 homes on farmland west of Brookhampton Lane in Kineton, about eight miles from Stratford-upon-Avon. The application, 26/02550/FUL, comes from Lone Star Land of Henley-in-Arden and includes 25 affordable homes. The first public comment on the file is an objection, and the site isn’t one the village’s neighbourhood plan set aside for housing.
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What’s planned
The site covers 5.06 hectares next to Brook Business Park, about 750 metres from the village centre. Homes would take up about two hectares, in one and two storeys, and 2.58 hectares would be open space with a play area, trails and two drainage basins. The existing footpaths across the fields would stay.
Cars would come in through a new junction on Warwick Road (the B4086), with traffic calming and a new bus stop on the far side of the road. The applicant’s transport work estimates 30 extra trips in the morning peak and 38 in the evening peak.
The applicant’s case
Kineton’s neighbourhood plan, made in 2016, doesn’t allocate this land, and it isn’t among the village’s three draft sites in the South Warwickshire Local Plan. The planning statement rests on the district’s housing land shortage: at 2.43 years’ supply against the five expected, it argues national policy means permission should be given unless the harm substantially outweighs the benefits. It calls the neighbourhood plan about 10 years old and describes the site as a logical extension to the village.
It accepts some harm: the loss of open countryside, and low-level harm to the setting of King John’s Castle, a scheduled monument about 180 metres east of the site, because new homes would hide it from parts of the footpath. It says the land is lower-grade farmland (subgrade 3b) in the lowest flood risk zone. On biodiversity, the scheme would lose 0.4% of habitat units on site, mostly grassland, while more than doubling hedgerow units, so it would need to buy habitat elsewhere to reach the required 10% gain.
What people have said so far
When we checked on 4 November, the file held one public comment, an objection. It says the village’s facilities are at full capacity, the centre is congested with too little parking, school staff and pupils are parking on Banbury Road, and building on fields would harm wildlife. Warwickshire’s fire service has no objection as long as water supplies and hydrants for firefighting are agreed first. No replies from Kineton Parish Council or the county’s highways team are on the file yet, though the applicant says highways officers have asked for the 30–40mph speed limit change to be moved. It disputes that this is needed.
Who would run the affordable homes?
That is still open, as it is on Lone Star Land’s 99-home plan at Salford Priors. A report for the applicant dated 28 October says 11 housing associations with homes in the district were approached on 21 September. None has shown interest so far and one has yet to reply: four said they weren’t active in the district and four said 25 homes was too few. The plan is for 15 homes at social rent, five at affordable rent and five shared ownership.
What happens next
Neighbour letters run until 19 November and the site notice and newspaper advert until 27 November. The council’s target date for a decision is 8 January 2027. You can read the documents and comment on the application page, and see other plans near you with our Planning near me tool or on our Kineton page.
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Alex Harrington
Alex Harrington grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and runs What's up, Stratford? as an independent guide to the town.
