Local Plan Review
coventrysociety The City Council planning Team has taken a report to Cabinet to seek approval to publish a draft Issues and Options Paper for consultation. This is the first stage of…
Planning and Design
Taking a bet on the Gigafactory
Cllr. Jim O’Boyle, the Cabinet Member for Jobs, Regeneration and Climate Change, will be deciding whether to invest a further half a million pounds into the Gigafactory at a meeting…
Coming soon – a new place for a walk!
CovSoc member, Mary Courtney, gives us a report on a CovSoc tour of Segro Park on 12th June 2023. Mary writes….. Segro Park, a large wildlife area (miles of it)…
Something in the Earlsdon Water Perhaps?
CovSoc member, David Porter, remarks on some coincidences concerning a number of architects with Earlsdon connections. David writes….. Earlier in the year, I attended my first meeting of the Coventry…
Celebration Trees
From the City Council website….. Nearly 40,000 trees were planted in just 18-months in Coventry as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC) – a nationwide initiative created to mark…
A Walk in the Woods
CovSoc member Peter James tells us the interesting story of Derek Barrowcliff, a Warwickshire pathologist who could have starred in his own “Silent Witness”. In September 2011 Derek Barrowcliff went…
Further Consultation on Houses in Multiple Occupation
The Council has now published a development plan document that sets out how proposals for Homes in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) will be assessed through the planning application process. The news…
The Old Guy Goes Jogging – to Lentons Lane and Coventry’s proposed new Solar Farm
Today we start a new occasional series of articles as we follow CovSoc member Peter Hunter as he jogs around the north of the city. Peter writes…. My name is…
A Green Vision for our City
Further to our article about the consultation on Coventry’s Climate Change Strategy, Coventry Green New Deal have circulated their response to the strategy. David Ridley and Tom Maidment write….. On…
National Planning Policy Framework Consultation
The Coventry Society recently published an article about what is happening to Planning. To say that it’s in a mess, might be putting it too mildly. You might recall that…