Coventry Ring Road Open Space
coventrysociety Ambitious plans to breach Coventry ring road and open up the city centre have been submitted by the developers behind some of the city’s most exciting regeneration projects. Complex Development…
Environment
Don’t Lose Your Way – Saving the Country’s Footpaths
According to the Ramblers our footpaths “are one of the country’s most precious assets, hidden in plain sight, and often taken for granted. “Shaped by our ancestors over centuries, they…
Living with Beauty
The Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission published its final report at the end of January. The commission was set up to advise the government on how to promote and increase…
Coventry Ring Road Re-imagined
Covsoc Supporter Alan Denyer gives us his thoughts on the Ring Road….. Modern marvel, or outdated relic from bygone age of car-centric planning? Here’s what Wikipedia says about Birmingham’s (now…
Sorting the Waste!
Currently the blue-lidded bin recycling is sent to sorting facilities in Leeds & Nottingham which is very costly. Coventry City Council has proposed the idea of building a recycling facility…
The Vertical Forests of Utrecht
In the third and final story about Utrecht we look at a couple of other environmental projects that the city has sponsored or supported. The first is a 90m high…
The Bus Stop Bee Sanctuaries of Utrecht
This Is the first of a short series of stories where we profile some of the environmental and design innovations of the Dutch city of Utrecht. Utrecht is the fourth-largest…