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King Edward Drive, LEAMINGTON SPA, CV33 9SZ

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?

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.

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.

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

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

All the streets on this large modern housing estate have been given names that come from Shakespeares plays. Calpurnia appears in Julius Caesar. There is also a character of this name in the film "To Kill A Mockingbird"

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

Heathcote Park, entrance, right, is a mature park homes site Image, established many years before the Warwick Gates estate, left. Now new estates are springing up along the south side of Harbury Lane. It's a race track: amid this creeping suburbia the speed limit remains 50mph.