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The Grove, Lionheart Avenue, CV33 9FG

Or it may be Poets Corner, or Meadowsweet Farm – several housebuilders have got a bite of the cherry and have given appealing names to their own little estates for marketing purposes. The site pictured, while an extension of south Leamington, may be within the parish of Bishop's Tachbrook, the village seen on the skyline. It's in Image and Image

In places the developers have contrived a villagey feel to the Warwick Gates estate, as here, but it's too neat and tidy, too sterile to be convincing. To be fair, the estate is pretty full, with all sorts of people and there's lots of life going on.

Oakley Grove is one of the smaller new estates being developed along the south side of Harbury Lane. The developer is local company A.C.Lloyd. In a daring break with tradition all the road names are derived from varieties of potato with royal associations – King Edward Drive, Pentland Crown Place (pictured), Lionheart Avenue, etc – entirely appropriate for a greenfield farm site, it cannot be denied.

For years the south side of Harbury Lane had a couple of farms and a long-established static caravan site, Heathcote Park Image Planning permission was granted to Gallagher for a business and industrial estate near Europa Way, route to the M40, but it was never implemented. In recent years a number of housing developments have appeared and more are being built. The view is from the new road that will access a site at Grove Farm: Bishops Gate? Oakley Grove? Meadowsweet Farm?

Compare Image, taken 14 months earlier from a point further west along Harbury Lane. Several new developments are being built to the south of the lane; there's every sign that they will form a new suburb of Leamington.

Heathcote Park is a static caravan site. The trees have grown up on the disused Heathcote sewage works to the southwest: see Image The view is from the end of Royal Avenue on one of the new residential developments along the south side of Harbury Lane. 'Royal' is a reference to Jersey Royal potatoes: see Image

Seen from the corner of Cicero Approach. The identity of this area is in flux. The gazetteer says 'near to Whitnash', which is true, but this corner of Warwick Gates is in the parish of Bishop's Tachbrook, the village to the south. The name Warwick Gates creates an association with Warwick's heritage but the whole estate feels like a further extension of south Leamington. Politically, though, most of the estate is in the Warwick South ward.

One of several sites being developed for housing on the south side of Harbury Lane. A road is being laid out.

This mobile home estate has been developed over recent years at Heathcote near Warwick.

A site for permanent mobile homes: Image It was transferred here from Myton to allow the construction of Europa Way in the 1980s.