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Coventry’s iconic indoor market is to get at least £1.25m of external improvements, the council has announced. The works to the exterior of the Grade II-listed Coventry Market will include glazing in the lower section to let more light in, wider doorways and better links between businesses and public space. A team of architects who… Read more: A Makeover for the Market

Exactly four months earlier, a couple of members of the Coventry Society Committee were invited to see the renovation work at The Chace Hotel in Willenhall. We received a further invitation to examine progress since then, and a small party from the Committee were welcomed by the owners Nick and Tim, whom we had met… Read more: Coventry Society Revisit the Chace Hotel

Local projects set to benefit as Coventry City Centre South Fund opens for applications. The Hill Group is calling on registered charities, community groups and social enterprises across Coventry to seize the opportunity to secure funding for projects that make a real difference locally. Applications are now open for the Coventry City Centre South Fund, with… Read more: City Centre South Grants

We reported on “the battle for Pinkett’s Booth” back in June. You will recall that on the very last day of the public inquiry into the Coventry Local Plan, developers put forward a scheme to create employment land in the Green Belt west of Brickhill Lane in Allesley. After we raised out concerns, there has… Read more: The Battle of Pinkett’s Booth II

At our first general meeting for 2026/27, we focussed on transport in Coventry. We had two excellent presentations from Colin Knight, Director of Innovation at the Council who provided us with an update on the Very Light Railway (VLR) and Neil Benison, Transport Planning Manager at the Council, who covered the transport strategy. This briefing… Read more: Update on VLR

GreenPower Park: a change of direction for Coventry Airport! A new planning application for the former Coventry Airport site suggests that the long-promoted vision of a giant battery factory is giving way to a much broader employment development. Coventry City Council is proposing to spend a further £1 million on preparing a new planning application… Read more: Gigafactory Gets Downgrade

At our first general meeting for 2026/27, Coventry Society focussed on transport in Coventry. We had two excellent presentations from Colin Knight, Director of Innovation at the Council who provided us with an update on the Very Light Railway (VLR) and Neil Benison, Transport Planning Manager at the Council, who covered the transport strategy. This… Read more: Coventry’s Transport Strategy

Coventry historian and author, David McGrory, has published his 29th book about Coventry and its history. In ‘A Dark History of Coventry’, David delves into the dark and lesser known stories about Coventry’s past. Coventry has been a major city in England since the Middle Ages. As the city grew, deprivation, crime and its punishment… Read more: A Dark History of Coventry

A somewhat bleary-eyed group of Society members met at Viscoe’s Leamington headquarters on Friday 21 August 2026 for an early 9.00 am start. We were met by Matthew and Dan, who escorted us around the facility, with Dan providing informative and entertaining insights into the company’s background and the assembly processes we were observing. Vitsoe… Read more: Visit to Vitsoe’s Leamington HQ and Production Building

An exhibition of rare footage and photos brings the City’s past to life. The exhibition, at the Priory Visitor Centre Undercroft, shows visual records of a city’s past and present brings together three collections for the first time. Coventry Then & Now features archive photographs of the city, rare film footage of the construction of… Read more: Coventry Then and Now