Coventry brook flowing for the first time in over 100 years
coventrysociety One of Coventry’s ancient watercourses on the edge of the city centre is flowing again for the first time in over a century thanks to a major new naturalisation project.…
Planning and Design
New Blossom Garden for Charterhouse
Last week the National Trust and Historic Coventry Trust announced plans to create a blossom garden in the city’s newly created Charterhouse Heritage Park. The initiative is part of the…
Goodbye to Elliott’s
The completion of another high rise development in the city centre marks the end of a historical Coventry institution. The new residential blocks are built on the site of the…
New Modular Homes Pilot for Coventry
A pilot scheme to try out modular homes in Coventry is going to be extended later this year. The scheme is being led by Citizen Housing, the Housing Association that…
Visit to Bond’s Hospital
Peter Walters, Vice Chair of the Coventry Society, reports back on our last visit A green wall, rising thirty feet from the courtyard and dense with foliage, was a surprise…
Green Belt Fight Goes to Court
The campaign to save the former green belt in Eastern Green from development has moved into the courts. Local Campaigners together with the Campaign to Protect Rural England Warwickshire are…
Council Adopts New Local Development Scheme
The City Council’s Cabinet has published its plans for the review of the local plans for the city and the production of new Supplementary Planning documents. The Cabinet has approved…
The Regenerated City Centre – A first impression
CovSoc committee member, Peter Hunter, takes a walk around the new city centre and gives us his impressions. Peter writes: I took a stroll round Coventry city centre this Sunday…
Radford Brook Linear Park
During April a Coventry Society group were lucky enough to be given a tour of the new linear park from Naul’s Mill Park to Abbotts Lane and onto Belgrade Plaza.…
Chapel at London Road Cemetery Approved for Office Use
Planning permission has been granted for a change of use of the Nonconformist Chapel at London Road Cemetery from a place of worship (D1) to Office Use (B3). The proposed…