New Food Waste Collections
coventrysociety Coventry is set to introduce food waste collections within the next year. At present Coventry Council provides a bi-weekly food waste collection and recycling service for those who pay for…
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Ikea Project Re-Starts
Following a number of difficulties, the plans for a major cultural project at the Ikea building seem to be back on track. The plans to transform Coventry’s old IKEA into…
Delia Shortlisted
Coventry University’s Delia Derbyshire Building has been shortlisted as a potential RIBA prize winner. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) unveiled nine projects that have been nominated across the…
Future of Demolished Earlsdon Street Premises Still Uncertain
The City Council has reported that a full Stop Notice has now been served to prevent further unauthorised works at Ethe former Natwest Bank in Earlsdon Street. But the future…
Counting Culture
UNESCO has chosen the city of Coventry and Warwick Business School (WBS) to participate in its global project to highlight the role of culture in building a sustainable future for…
Corporation Housing 1890 – 1919
Coventry Society Committee member, Tim Brown, gave us an interesting presentation on the history of corporation housing on 12th February 2025. In a talk entitled “Two Steps Forward and One…
Luddites in Coventry
Coventry Society historian, Peter James, tells us the story of the Luddites in Coventry and what became of some of them.
Tiny Forests
Coventry City Council have recently been awarded £294,915 from the Forestry Commission’s Local Authority Treescapes Fund to plant 151 semi-mature trees and 7068 whips in 10 Wards across Coventry. 3600…
The King Dies and Coventry Reborn
Coventry in 1952/3: (from Alfred Herbert News Vol 31 No 1 Jan-Feb 1957) Historian and CovSoc Committee member, David Fry, has been studying past editions of the Alfred Herbert Newsletter.…
New Homes in Keresley
The Coventry Observer has reported that the first phase of a new 3,000-home development on the western edge of Coventry is to open next month. Housebuilder Bellway is building 244…