Planned Changes to the Planning System
coventrysociety The Government has announced significant plans to change the planning system in the post-Covid era. The plan is a major effort to build more homes and get more people to…
Planning and Design
Who is Behind the Proposed Changes in the Planning System?
The Coventry Society will shortly be publishing details of the proposed changes to the Planning System in England. John Payne identifies the main people proposing the changes. Dominic Cummings, the…
Long-awaited City Centre South proposals arrive
Developers Shearers, has published plans for the major redevelopment of the south of the city centre. Outline Planning permission for the scheme was initially given in 2012 since when the…
Coventry University Degree Show
As a result of the Coronavirus epidemic, the normal Coventry University Degree Show has this year moved online. In its new accessible format it is possible to look at the…
City Centre South – the Coventry Society’s criteria for a sustainable city centre
A different vision for Coventry In May 2020, in the depth of the Covid-19 lockdown, the Coventry Society published a call-to-arms ‘Creating a different vision for Coventry’. The paper identified…
Proposed development at Brownshill Green
It’s hardly surprising that Brownshill Green residents are up in arms over the prospect of expanding their rural fringe hamlet with as many as 475 homes. No doubt the residents…
Coventry – Art and Architecture.
Twenty Things you Ought to Know About Coventry and Art and Architecture by Peter Walters, CovSoc Committee Member 1. A stained-glass image of a blonde-haired woman, discovered during recent archaeological…
Social distancing space on High Street
The Coventry Society supports the Council’s plan to close High Street to vehicle traffic and we hope that it will contribute to a longer term plan to reduce the traffic…
Creating a Different Vision for Coventry
Post the coronavirus crisis we will all wish for ‘normality’, a return to the reassurance of the way things have been. But though we might want a return to the…
Radford Under Park
We are very excited that the plans for the proposed innovative Radford Under Park, which will be a new pedestrian and cycle route passes under the raised section of the…