Coventry University Degree Show
coventrysociety 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…
Planning and Design
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…
Going Smokeless in Coventry
It was 69 years ago that Coventry became the first UK city to go smokeless. March 1st, 1951 became ‘No Smoke Day’, heralding Coventry city centre as the UK’s first…
A Half Century of Earth Day
Today, 22nd April 2020, marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. A global event in more than 193 countries. In 1969, at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist…
Coventry Ring Road Open Space
Ambitious plans to breach Coventry ring road and open up the city centre have been submitted by the developers behind some of the city’s most exciting regeneration projects. Complex Development…