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Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is a policy and legal requirement within the English planning system designed to ensure that new development results in a measurable improvement in biodiversity — in other words, that nature is left in a better state than before the development occurred. Rather than just avoiding or mitigating harm to nature, BNG… Read more: Biodiversity Net Gain

Cov Soc member John Marshall offers an overview of Coventry Airport’s history and its imminent demise THE historic aerodrome at Baginton – known for many years as Coventry Airport – is finally set to close, making way for a proposed gigafactory on the site. The airport on the southern edge of the city first opened… Read more: Baginton Aerodrome to Close

Our Chair, Trevor Cornfoot, reflects on the recent Government announcement about the Leeds Tram Scheme and what it might mean for Coventry’s Very Light Rail (VLR) project. As recently as June 2025, the Chancellor, the Transport Secretary and Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, publicly committed £2.5 billion to the Leeds Tram Scheme. However, just… Read more: Coventry VLR – not now; not ever?

The BBC has reported that an old cinema and a wartime anti-tank structure could be added to a city’s list of heritage assets. The Astoria, which opened as the Broadway Cinema in Earlsdon, Coventry, in 1922 and the Blacker Bombard spigot mortar, along the city’s Oxford Canal, have been nominated for the city council’s Local… Read more: New Additions to Local List

The BBC has reported on a project to capture image of Coventry car workers and the vehicles they built, in a celebration of the twinning of Coventry and Dresden. Vanessa Pearce writes …. Images showing motor industry workers, with some of the vehicles they helped build, have been produced in a project to mark major… Read more: Motor Industry Workers Celebrated in Photo Project

Brandon Wood Golf Course is set to be turned into a nature reserve that will create rich wildlife habitats and become a major new visitor destination for the city.  Members of Coventry City Council are set to meet to discuss the plans that would see the golf course’s fairways, greens and bunkers replaced with wetland, grassland, ponds,… Read more: Former Golf Course to Become Nature Reserve

The BBC has reported that Coventry’s bid to install a tram network across the city is set to take another step forward with the installation of a new track. A new 800m route running from Coventry Railway Station to Coventry University Technology Park is due to be installed by March 2027. The new route will… Read more: Next Leg of VLR Gets Go Ahead

Coventry Council’s Planning Committee has now approved the development of a solar farm on land it owns in Alderman’s Green. Similar plans for a solar farm were previously refused by the committee in February 2024. Council Officers had recommended that the first application be approved, but now say that the new application overcomes the reasons… Read more: Solar Farm Gets Go Ahead

Following a successful campaign on social media and two petitions, the City Council has at last responded to concerns about the future of Coventry Market. Coventry Market is a hugely important asset which has been serving Coventry’s communities since the 1950s. The Market sells a huge variety of goods and services and is a key… Read more: Support for the Market

The BBC has reported that Giant sketches of an angel, used by artist John Hutton to create one of Coventry Cathedral’s most striking features, have been repaired and gifted to the cathedral. Chalk drawings were created on black paper by the engraver as a blueprint for each of the 66 angel and saint figures he… Read more: Hutton Sketches Gifted to the Cathedral