Affordable Housing and City Centre South
coventrysociety Coventry Society Vice Chair, Tim Brown, tells us about a new player in the social housing sector. Tim writes….. There has been considerable coverage of the start of the demolition…
Planning and Design
Demolition Starts for City Centre South
After a long delay, the demolition of parts of the city centre has commenced in preparation for the £450m City Centre South development. It is the biggest redevelopment project in…
Spon End Regeneration Update
Housing association Citizen is working with The Hill Group to demolish Kerry House, Milestone House and Trafalgar House, as part of the first stage of the redevelopment with building work…
Donald Gibson – Ten Things you Didn’t Know!
Ten things you didn’t know about Donald Gibson, Coventry’s City Architect and designer of the pioneering post-war Coventry Precinct. Historian and Coventry Society committee member, David Fry, tells us…. He…
Jubilee Woodland Plans Abandoned
Following a campaign by the Coventry Society and residents of Keresley, plans for building housing on the Keresley Jubilee Woods have been withdrawn by the Council. Last month, the Coventry…
500 Homes Approved in Eastern Green
The BBC has reported that planning permission has been granted for nearly 500 new homes to be built on farm fields near the A45 in Coventry. Coventry Council granted full…
Westwood Business Park or Westwood Student Campus?
Coventry Society is increasingly concerned about the future of Westwood Business Park. It was developed from the late 1980s onwards as an iconic location, near to Warwick University, for office-type…
New Plans for Civic Centre Site
Coventry University is planning a massive redevelopment which could bring a hotel, shops and hundreds of new homes to the site of former Council offices in the city centre. The…
A Walk on the Wild Side
On 14th May 2025, twenty-seven intrepid Coventry Society member braved the wild conditions of the Charterhouse Heritage Park to see for themselves what is planned for the area. Guided by…
Objections to Building on Celebration Woodland
The Coventry Society has objected to two proposals for self-build housing at Watery Lane, Keresley. The two sites are part of the Keresley Jubilee Wood, created in 2012 and protected…