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Cicero Approach, WARWICK, CV34 6EA

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"

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.

Almost all the streets on the Warwick Gates estate are named after characters from Shakespeare's plays. Greater familiarity with the Bard's creations might have signalled caution: but, no, we have Timon View, Macbeth Approach, Toby Belch Drive, Cressida Close and - Caliban Mews. "The isle is full of noises" that do not delight: 4-wheel drives, motorised scooters, light aircraft, lawnmowers, ice-cream vans, drumkits…

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?

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.

Othello Avenue is one of the main arteries of the Warwick Gates estate. All the roads are named after characters from Shakespeare's works.

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.

Sunrise following snow

Estates of houses like these have sprung up in recent years around Warwick, covering previously green fields with concrete.

There are four such lagoons, one at each corner of the estate. They appear too deep, as though the engineers have overdone the safety factors. Still, better safe than sorry.