Here's how some of the HS2 money will be spent in and around Southam, Leamington and Kenilworth

A string of road safety features totalling around £125,000 are to be introduced in Southam with the money coming from HS2.

Other areas will have casualty reduction schemes paid for from the second round of HS2 Road Safety Fund payments and cash will also be forthcoming to pay for various items including village gateway signing, feasibility studies and a section of the cycle network linking Kenilworth to Warwick University and Coventry.

Nearly £600,000 has been earmarked in total, drawn down from the £8.045m made available to Warwickshire County Council to be spent on road safety in locations closely associated with the route of the railway.

Analysis, funded from an earlier HS2 RSF round of spending, identified a number of places where a relatively small amount of funding could result in a significant improvement in accident and casualty numbers.

Southam will see the largest chunk of cash with a new 20mph speed limit, school safety zone and refreshed road markings on sections of Welsh Road and the introduction of a 40mph speed limit as a buffer zone further along the same stretch of road linking the town to Priors Marston.

Another scheme will see new signing, street lighting and resurfacing on Leamington’s Sandy Lane roundabout at a cost of £50,000 and junction warning signs at the Windy Arbour/Leyes Lane intersection in Kenilworth.