Greenfield or Brownfield?
coventrysociety Two planning applications being consider before Christmas give our council the opportunity to show its true colours in relation to greenfield and brownfield development. In November there is a planning…
October 2022
The Future of Coventry’s Past – 2
More than 80 representatives and supporters of heritage groups in the city ensured a lively audience for the Coventry Society’s heritage conference in the stunning setting of Drapers Hall on…
Walking Backwards No 20. Cox Street to Gosford Green
Today we have the final episode of Peter Walter’s series of lockdown walks “being a compendium of idle facts, hidden places and meaningless historiana gathered on walks within easy striding…
Christ Church
This month the Coventry Society visited Christ Church in Frankpledge Road, Cheylesmore, courtesy of Reverend Arthur Woo. The original Christ Church was built in 1832 on the site of the…
The Culture of Ukraine
The October meeting of the Arts Society Coventry is focused on the culture of Ukraine and is open to the public. “This lecture tells the Ukrainian story through the shared…
Walking Backwards No. 19 From Bird Street to Red Lane
Today we have the penultimate episode of Peter Walter’s series of lockdown walks “being a compendium of idle facts, hidden places and meaningless historiana gathered on walks within easy striding…
Second Attempt to List The Elephant
The Architects Journal has reported that heritage campaign group, the Twentieth Century Society, has launched a nationwide campaign to get ten ‘wildly inventive and underappreciated’ leisure centres listed. Included in…
Closing Time by Chris Arnot
Following an interesting talk to the Coventry Society by Chris Arnot on 10th October, our Chair, Peter Walters, has written the following review of Chris’s book for the benefit of…
Walking Backwards No 18. St Columba’s close to Poultney Road
Today we have the eighteenth episode of Peter Walter’s series of lockdown walks “being a compendium of idle facts, hidden places and meaningless historiana gathered on walks within easy striding…
Controversial development on the A444 refused by Planning Committee
The Coventry Telegraph has reported that a potential rift between Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough and Coventry City Councils has been exposed as a “shoehorned” proposal for a mixed use development…