Yet another plan for Coventry!
coventrysociety Coventry Society continues to take an active role in the City Council’s update of the local plan. Currently, the Council is responding to nearly 60 questions raised by the independent…
Planning and Design
The Future of the Baths
Coventry Swimming Baths and “The Elephant” – Coventry Society’s Position The Coventry Society, like many local organisations and Coventrians, is disappointed that the Council wishes to demolish the Swimming Baths…
A New Building Material?
Dezeen Magazine has reported that Australian Researchers have created a building material where rammed earth is encased in permanent cardboard formwork, eliminating the need for cement. Rammed earth is a…
Spon End Redevelopment Gets the Planning Go-ahead
The latest chapter in the saga over the redevelopment of the Spon End estate has been completed. First mooted in 2019, the proposals have now received planning permission from the…
Moon Craters in Coventry!
CovSoc founder member, Paul Maddocks, reminds us of the previous location of Volgograd Place and its failed vision. Paul writes…. A modern landscape that looks like moon craters or even…
No Fines Concrete – Then and Now!
Following our recent visit to St. John the Devine Church, we thought it might be interesting to research the history and use of No Fines Concrete in Coventry and elsewhere.…
Progress with the Coventry Local Plan Review
Introduction The local plan prepared by the Council which sets out the future development of the city over the next 15 years has reached an important stage in the approval…
A Library for the 21st Century
Coventry Society Secretary, John Payne, discovered an architectural gem during his recent holiday in the Netherlands. LocHal: Tilburg’s Iconic Library and Cultural Hub Located in a beautifully restored 1930s locomotive…
Alpha House That Jack’s Built
Paul Maddocks, one of Coventry Society’s founder members, has been researching another of Coventry’s “firsts”! Paul writes…… Over the past few months I have been looking at some of Coventry’s…
Coventry Baths Set for Demolition
The BBC has reported that Coventry’s iconic swimming baths is set to be demolished after the council failed to find another use for the building. The building is Grade II…