Coventry University Expansion Plans - Will they protect our heritage?
Coventry University recently announced plans to take over four council buildings, Civic Centres one to four, that stand between Little Park Street and Much Park Street. The university would use this area to expand the university’s Technology Park, which house and support small, high-tech businesses in the city.
While some will be concerned to see yet more encroachment on the city centre by the university the Society’s particular concern at this time is to see the copper-roofed buildings that front Council House Square retained. They are part of the post-war story of regeneration and provide a particularly fine setting for the Council House itself. It would be a crying shame to see modernistic 21st century buildings replace them to front the recently landscaped area.
