Tree Equity
coventrysociety The Woodland Trust, in partnership with American Forests, has developed a tool to assess the tree cover in your neighbourhood. It is well known that the presence of trees in…
Planning and Design
City Centre Changes
The City Council is consulting on plans to improve access within the city centre. The plans include the initial route for the Very Light Rail (VLR) system and a fully…
Consultation on Plans for the Eastern Bypass
National Highways are consulting the public about plans to improve the A46 Eastern Bypass near Walsgrave. The scheme is part of a government commitment to improve the A46 ‘Trans-Midlands Trade…
Building Houses on Roads
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…
New Recycling Centre set to launch
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…
Taiwo Calls for Planning Reform
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…
Abbotts Park Gets the Go Ahead
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…
Gigafactory – A step forward?
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…
The Art of Slow
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…
A Cut-Out Model of Coventry Cathedral
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…