CovSoc Supports Campaign to Improve the Design of new housing
coventrysociety At its meeting on Monday 10th December 2018, CovSoc Chairman Paul Maddocks handed over a cheque to Sarah James from Civic Voice to support the campaign to improve the quality…
Planning and Design
Building Better, Building Beautiful
A commission to champion beautiful buildings as an integral part of the drive to build the homes communities need has been announced by the Communities Secretary Rt Hon James Brokenshire…
Which Vision of Cuckoo Lane do you prefer?
With Planning Committee due to make a decision about the future of the Coventry Cross on Thursday, here is the choice they have to make. Which do you prefer? The…
Corporation Street “Village?”
With the opening of luxury apartments in the former Co-op and independent café Changamiri Coffee opposite on the north side of Corporation Street there’s a real sense of a new…
20/20 Visions: Collaborative Planning and Place Making: Charles Campion
This book, published by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) looks back at fifty years of community led design and planning practice. It is based on the premise that…
Topping Out at Copsewood
It was a moment to say “job well done” when Morris Homes invited several of us to share in the ceremony to top-out the historic Copsewood Grange at Stoke. Chairman…
Does it have to be riding roughshod?
I have said it before and I’ll say it again. Bowing to the big boys without proper consideration for locals, whether they be retailers who have invested in a shop…
Twentieth Century Society Comments on the Plans for the Upper Precinct
You cannot read the comments made on the Council’s Planning Portal in relation to the Listed Building application to re-shape the Upper Precinct. As a service to Coventry Citizens we…
Historic England’s Response to the Upper Precinct
Planning permission for the redevelopment of the Upper Precinct was granted in 2017. However the scheme caused considerable concern to Historic England and following their recommendation, the Precinct was listed…
Rotterdam Shows How to Celebrate its 1950’s Architecture
Look at this picture and it could be Coventry! With the future plans for the recently listed Upper Precinct currently being considered, it was interesting to read a recent Guardian…