Create Streets proposes building housing on Britain’s “needlessly wide” roads. Architectural website Dezeen reports….. Architecture task force Create Streets is calling for Britain’s multi-lane roads to be replaced with homes…
The BBC has reported that the new recycling Centre in Whitley is due to open shortly. The following is an article by Caroline Gall published on the BBC website on…
The Coventry Observer has reported that Coventry North West MP Taiwo Owatemi has called for more to be done to create a planning system ‘fit for this century’ after the…
A Government Inspector has granted planning permission for the proposed Abbotts Park development on the former gasworks site adjoining the Ring Road. Abbotts Park is the 5.5-acre derelict former gas…
The City Council has reported that it is in advanced discussions with several leading Asian battery manufacturers about future investment at the Coventry site. The Council claims that the West…
For our October 2023 meeting, we had an interesting and challenging presentation from CovSoc member and Architect John Prevc on the subject “The Art of Slow”. John told us that…
CovSoc member and Chair of the Friends of Coventry Cathedral, Martin Williams, tells us this interesting story from the 1960s. Martin writes…. One of the souvenirs produced in 1962 to…
Architect John Prevc will speak on the subject of “The Art of Slow” at the Coventry Society meeting in October. John is a Coventry Kid, who was brought up in…
Further to our article earlier in September, the Coventry Society has now submitted its response to the consultation on the Issues and Options paper. The Coventry Society – the city’s…
For the last visit of the summer, twenty CovSoc members were given a tour of the new Delia Derbyshire Building – and they loved it! On 6th September our colleagues…
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