Warwick This Week: Leader Vote, Council Homes and The Globe

This week’s local news in one place, plus Bonfire Night and Remembrance weekend and what’s coming up next week. The big story: Warwick District Council will meet on Wednesday 11 November to debate removing its leader, Ian Davison, after Labour left the coalition. Also this week: the state of the council’s own housing, a heritage objection to The Globe’s makeover, and a warning about scam calls from a fake police number.

Council

• Leader faces removal vote: seven councillors asked for an urgent meeting at 6pm on 11 November, where a motion will propose removing the Green leader. Who asked for it and how the seats add up.
• Council flats fire safety: work on the district council’s blocks is due to run until 2029. What’s left to do.
• Housing repairs: the number of overdue repair jobs in council homes has kept rising. The figures and how to chase a repair.
• Kitchens and boilers: a new plan sets out how often council tenants’ kitchens, bathrooms and boilers are replaced. When yours is due.
• Homelessness: Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon councils are drawing up a joint housing and homelessness strategy, with consultation proposed from December. Read more.
• Safety audit: an internal audit found a fire at a contractor’s depot wasn’t reported to the council. What the auditors found.
• Councillor conduct: two complaints ended with apologies. Read more.

Planning

• The Globe, Theatre Street: the council’s conservation officer has objected to the pub’s latest plans. Both sides.
• Pizza Express, Jury Street: the restaurant has applied to repair the roof and chimneys of its medieval listed building. How to comment.

Safety and roads

• Scam calls: fraudsters are calling from an old Warwickshire Police number. What to do if they ring you.
• Be ready: the county council is asking households to plan for floods and power cuts this winter. The advice.
• Firework fires: the county had its most firework-related fires in five years in 2025. The fire service’s advice.
• Roadworks: Wathen Road stays closed until 18 December, and Watery Lane, Sherbourne, closes from Monday 9 November until 23 November for Severn Trent. Every closure is on our road closures page.

In brief

• The tower of St Mary’s Church is lit with poppies every evening until Armistice Day, Wednesday 11 November, a display by Warwick’s Christmas lights team (Warwick Nub News).
• Two small footbridges in St Nicholas Park are due to be repaired from the week of 9 November, starting with the wooden bridge over the stream; the bridge by the café will be fenced off for a few days (Warwick Nub News, quoting a district council notice).
• Cadent plans temporary traffic lights on Coventry Road, near the Spinney Hill roundabout, from 16 to 30 November while it replaces gas pipes (Warwick Nub News). The works aren’t in the roadworks permit feed yet; we’ll add them to the road closures page when they are.
• Cards for Good Causes has opened its Christmas charity card pop-up at the Visitor Information Centre on Jury Street, Monday to Saturday, 10am to 4pm (Warwick Nub News).
• Next year’s Two Castles Run between Warwick and Kenilworth is on Sunday 13 June 2027, according to its race director (Leamington Observer). The organiser’s own site doesn’t show the date yet.
• Free Big Toy Swap at Chase Meadow Community Centre on Sunday 22 November: swap outgrown toys for Christmas presents.

This weekend in Warwick

Tonight there’s a Castle Ceilidh in the Great Hall at Warwick Castle. On Saturday the Warwick Town Bonfire is at the racecourse: gates at 5pm, children’s fireworks at 6pm, the bonfire at about 6.30pm and the main display at about 6.40pm, and the forecast is dry. On Sunday, Remembrance Sunday brings the procession, the two minutes’ silence at the War Memorial at 11am and town-centre road closures from 6am. Everything else is on our what’s on this weekend page, and other displays are in our fireworks guide.

Coming up next week

• Monday 9 November: Watery Lane, Sherbourne, closes until 23 November.
• Wednesday 11 November: Armistice Day service at the War Memorial (Church Street closed 8am to noon); at 6pm, the urgent council meeting on the leader at the Town Hall in Leamington. The Planning Committee is also listed for 6pm that evening, with no papers published yet.
• Wednesday 11 to Saturday 14 November: Into the Woods, by Warwick School and King’s High School, at the Bridge House Theatre.
• Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November: Interactive Futures, the district’s free games festival, in Leamington Spa.

Last week’s edition: Warwick this week, 30 October. More news is on our Warwick news page. Know something we should cover? Tell us.

Alex Harrington