Good post, we certainly need more people living right in the centre…..although you say, expensive public transport? We get a bus all the way up the M69 into town from Hinckley for £2. Surely you can do the same from the likes of Eastern Green or Binley Woods if you wanted to ?City Centre South will be the game changer. Coventry is in desperate need of a higher city centre population. With expensive parking and extremely expensive public transport, you cannot rely on people living in the suburbs to travel into town.
Putting such effort into students is great, but they don't spend 12 months in Coventry and are often willing to travel and explore wider regions.
If you have young professionals living in Coventry City centre, many may not drive and will use the bars/pubs/shops/amenities within a 15 minute walk. It will ensure Coventry is busy into the evening.
Unfortunately CCS will take an awful long time and things could quickly decline.
I'm surprised no one has eyed up land around Friargate for high rise apartments. If you lived there, you could be in an office in Birmingham within 25 minutes, or the centre of London in 55. People struggle to get into central London from the suburbs in that time.
City Centre South will be the game changer. Coventry is in desperate need of a higher city centre population. With expensive parking and extremely expensive public transport, you cannot rely on people living in the suburbs to travel into town.
Putting such effort into students is great, but they don't spend 12 months in Coventry and are often willing to travel and explore wider regions.
If you have young professionals living in Coventry City centre, many may not drive and will use the bars/pubs/shops/amenities within a 15 minute walk. It will ensure Coventry is busy into the evening.
Unfortunately CCS will take an awful long time and things could quickly decline.
I'm surprised no one has eyed up land around Friargate for high rise apartments. If you lived there, you could be in an office in Birmingham within 25 minutes, or the centre of London in 55. People struggle to get into central London from the suburbs in that time.
Good post, we certainly need more people living right in the centre…..although you say, expensive public transport? We get a bus all the way up the M69 into town from Hinckley for £2. Surely you can do the same from the likes of Eastern Green or Binley Woods if you wanted to ?
Realistically though, what is going to attract people to live in the city centre?
There's loads of work being put into new skilled jobs though, the WMG projects have been running for like a decade or so.With it becoming more difficult to drive cars (whether you think it's right or wrong), people will end up living closer to amenities.
Without a car, towns and cities like Coventry become incredibly difficult to live in.
It comes hand in hand. Young people generally like living in busy areas but they need jobs. Coventry has two top universities but they can't keep hold of the people.
With it becoming more difficult to drive cars (whether you think it's right or wrong), people will end up living closer to amenities.
Without a car, towns and cities like Coventry become incredibly difficult to live in.
It comes hand in hand. Young people generally like living in busy areas but they need jobs. Coventry has two top universities but they can't keep hold of the people.
There's loads of work being put into new skilled jobs though, the WMG projects have been running for like a decade or so.
These jobs are there.
The thing is though, how many young professionals work in the city centre so do they need to work closely when they can't drive? The other is if they do drive and they have to live in the city centre and have a car and then drive out to somewhere like Torrington Ave, the big Binley business park, the stuff at Baginton etc.
When / if Frasers build their big base near Ansty then are people going to move to the city centre to commute out of the city centre to Ansty?
I can't see many thinking, "Oh, that fancy city centre apartment, I'm going to live there, but I'm going to have to get the bus out of the city centre".
I agree about being close to the train station if people work in London or Brum, though.
They're not really going to be the type to work there, or are they, does suggest it's a national marketing issue really s, then HS2 COMES along to complicate things, who'd be a developer.The thing is though, how many young professionals work in the city centre so do they need to work closely when they can't drive? The other is if they do drive and they have to live in the city centre and have a car and then drive out to somewhere like Torrington Ave, the big Binley business park, the stuff at Baginton etc.
When / if Frasers build their big base near Ansty then are people going to move to the city centre to commute out of the city centre to Ansty?
I can't see many thinking, "Oh, that fancy city centre apartment, I'm going to live there, but I'm going to have to get the bus out of the city centre".
I agree about being close to the train station if people work in London or Brum, though.
They're not really going to be the type to work there, or are they, does suggest it's a national marketing issue really s, then HS2 COMES along to complicate things, who'd be a developer.
Ño I've got to be honest I was thinking of commuter's generally.Which professional types are going to work in the city centre and want to live there too, though?
There's plenty of tech types at the various business parks dotted around but whenever I've been looking for jobs in IT / Tech there's very rarely any in the city centre.
Which professional types are going to work in the city centre and want to live there too, though?
There's plenty of tech types at the various business parks dotted around but whenever I've been looking for jobs in IT / Tech there's very rarely any in the city centre.
I'd love you to be right but we've had stuff like this before that have ended up having little impact.City Centre South will be the game changer. Coventry is in desperate need of a higher city centre population. With expensive parking and extremely expensive public transport, you cannot rely on people living in the suburbs to travel into town.
Putting such effort into students is great, but they don't spend 12 months in Coventry and are often willing to travel and explore wider regions.
If you have young professionals living in Coventry City centre, many may not drive and will use the bars/pubs/shops/amenities within a 15 minute walk. It will ensure Coventry is busy into the evening.
Unfortunately CCS will take an awful long time and things could quickly decline.
I'm surprised no one has eyed up land around Friargate for high rise apartments. If you lived there, you could be in an office in Birmingham within 25 minutes, or the centre of London in 55. People struggle to get into central London from the suburbs in that time.
Agree. we need housing and we're a compact city so don't need all these out of town retail parks. I get the argument when many were made in the 90s etc but the conditions are much different now.Frankly we should be doing that to 90% of retail parks. It’s a joke half this stuff isn’t in Town. But then council rent demands in city centre are a joke.
Agree. we need housing and we're a compact city so don't need all these out of town retail parks. I get the argument when many were made in the 90s etc but the conditions are much different now.
Have read a thing were it showed that if the rents are cheap businesses lose confidence and often you just ended up attracting betting shops, charity shops and fast food outlets.
One thing that did make me think how inept we are is attracting IKEA, a shop really only suited to large retail parks with lots of parking, to come to a city with numerous out of town retail parks, and put them in the city centre! And not only that but attached to one of the busiest sections of the RR. Madness. Meanwhile we still have retail parks with the likes of TK Maxx, Boots and Card Factory in them.
Some are too close to the City Centre, Alvis being one of them, more suited for a Football Stadium than a retail park, a lot of the big retailers at Alvis and Central 6 have closed and now the food shops are all moving in, Aldi, Lidl, Iceland, Poundland, Greggs. There's no Currys, Samsung, Apple shops in town as well, with all the students here these are essentials surely.Agree. we need housing and we're a compact city so don't need all these out of town retail parks. I get the argument when many were made in the 90s etc but the conditions are much different now.
Have read a thing were it showed that if the rents are cheap businesses lose confidence and often you just ended up attracting betting shops, charity shops and fast food outlets.
One thing that did make me think how inept we are is attracting IKEA, a shop really only suited to large retail parks with lots of parking, to come to a city with numerous out of town retail parks, and put them in the city centre! And not only that but attached to one of the busiest sections of the RR. Madness. Meanwhile we still have retail parks with the likes of TK Maxx, Boots and Card Factory in them.
Things aren't actually that far apart but the layout is shit, there's no flow. If you're at the Skydome or the Belgrade you're pretty much going there and then out of town again. You don't walk out of those places, look up and think I'll just have a wander and a look around.What I don't like is you have the brilliant HMV on Hertford St, the brilliant Belgrade on Corporation St, the Odeon at the Skydome, you go places like Oxford and everything is on the same street, it's thriving with people in and out of the pubs restaurants with the amenities all together in the same area
They need to flatten Central Six, move those shops into the city centre, and build apartments attractive to young professionals on the site.
Isn't that the point. If you've got a shopping centre on the edge of town with free parking people will go there and not the city centre.Nah. people go to these for the free parking and the fact that it isn't in town. No one wants to pay the parking charges and mess around with the apps etc.
Where were going from and too? Just interested to know where you are hitting the traffic.53 minutes to do 6 miles today.
It's no wonder people don't want to put their head office in the city centre or go shopping there.
It takes me about ten minutes more to get to the park and ride in Nottingham.
I drive 10 mins and I get a tram into Nottingham City centre....every city just seems to be better at everything than ours!! Its infuriating.53 minutes to do 6 miles today.
It's no wonder people don't want to put their head office in the city centre or go shopping there.
It takes me about ten minutes more to get to the park and ride in Nottingham.
Theres traffic all over.Where were going from and too? Just interested to know where you are hitting the traffic.
I am out of the loop these days.
I drive 10 mins and I get a tram into Nottingham City centre....every city just seems to be better at everything than ours!! Its infuriating.
Is it just loads of roadworks going on?Theres traffic all over.
I was going from Exhall to near the Skydome.
On the A444 there is - has been for a while now.Is it just loads of roadworks going on?
I moved from Maidstone to Folkestone and Maidstone was an absolute nightmare. They built the system so everyone has to go through town and you just ground to a halt trying to get anywhere
Folkestone is so much quieter.
I live south cov and drive away from the city centre so I'm OK but if I have to go towards town it can easily take 15 minutes just to get out of my road.53 minutes to do 6 miles today.
It's no wonder people don't want to put their head office in the city centre or go shopping there.
It takes me about ten minutes more to get to the park and ride in Nottingham.
Is it just loads of roadworks going on?
I moved from Maidstone to Folkestone and Maidstone was an absolute nightmare. They built the system so everyone has to go through town and you just ground to a halt trying to get anywhere
Folkestone is so much quieter.
Don't worry, we're building a light rail from the train station to the Skydome so that will solve all the problemsThe tram is so much easier, just pull up at Clifton and jump on the tram for £5.50 or whatever for the day.
HS2 on the route I go. They've currently got the road I take closed for a month to join the existing road to a new road. Closed for a month for less than a metre of tarmac!Is it just loads of roadworks going on?
I moved from Maidstone to Folkestone and Maidstone was an absolute nightmare. They built the system so everyone has to go through town and you just ground to a halt trying to get anywhere
Folkestone is so much quieter.
HS2 on the route I go. They've currently got the road I take closed for a month to join the existing road to a new road. Closed for a month for less than a metre of tarmac!
Added bonus the 3 shortest / quickest alternative routes have all been closed at the same time. My best option now is down the A45 towards Rugby but that means getting caught at BP island which is bad enough at the moment but now there's signs up saying Leamington Road is being closed in Feb.
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