Part of Coundon Wedge to be Destroyed by Council
coventrysociety The City Council has launched a consultation on its plans to build over part of the Coundon Wedge. The Coventry Society is opposed to this untimely development. The site is…
Planning and Design
Coventry brook flowing for the first time in over 100 years
One of Coventry’s ancient watercourses on the edge of the city centre is flowing again for the first time in over a century thanks to a major new naturalisation project.…
New Blossom Garden for Charterhouse
Last week the National Trust and Historic Coventry Trust announced plans to create a blossom garden in the city’s newly created Charterhouse Heritage Park. The initiative is part of the…
Goodbye to Elliott’s
The completion of another high rise development in the city centre marks the end of a historical Coventry institution. The new residential blocks are built on the site of the…
New Modular Homes Pilot for Coventry
A pilot scheme to try out modular homes in Coventry is going to be extended later this year. The scheme is being led by Citizen Housing, the Housing Association that…
Visit to Bond’s Hospital
Peter Walters, Vice Chair of the Coventry Society, reports back on our last visit A green wall, rising thirty feet from the courtyard and dense with foliage, was a surprise…
Green Belt Fight Goes to Court
The campaign to save the former green belt in Eastern Green from development has moved into the courts. Local Campaigners together with the Campaign to Protect Rural England Warwickshire are…
Council Adopts New Local Development Scheme
The City Council’s Cabinet has published its plans for the review of the local plans for the city and the production of new Supplementary Planning documents. The Cabinet has approved…
The Regenerated City Centre – A first impression
CovSoc committee member, Peter Hunter, takes a walk around the new city centre and gives us his impressions. Peter writes: I took a stroll round Coventry city centre this Sunday…
Radford Brook Linear Park
During April a Coventry Society group were lucky enough to be given a tour of the new linear park from Naul’s Mill Park to Abbotts Lane and onto Belgrade Plaza.…