So it's goodbye Ikea, (2 Viewers)

[robbiekeane]

Worlds biggest 99p store coming up

 

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[ccfcway]

would make a great weatherspoons. You can use the escalators to do the 3 mile trip to the toilet instead of having to walk it in most spoons

 

[Deleted member 2477]

I recon with investment a correct planning it would make a perfect site for a new stadium. Really put the city on the map and could combine the ice hockey, basket ball etc with it as well as parking, a casino and bars but we all know the council will turn it into student flats or offices that wont get used. Anything but something the people of Coventry need

 

[Warwickhunt]

sell it to the insect Lords and they can play Rugby indoors.

 

[shmmeee]

I recon with investment a correct planning it would make a perfect site for a new stadium. Really put the city on the map and could combine the ice hockey, basket ball etc with it as well as parking, a casino and bars but we all know the council will turn it into student flats or offices that wont get used. Anything but something the people of Coventry need

Agree with your overall point. But the very reason property investors build student flats is that there isn’t enough of them and there’s high demand. Same for high quality office space meaning we can’t attract decent paying jobs. The council build very little themselves and can only approve or deny what’s put in front of them according to planning laws. A decade ago all the complaints were about students taking up family homes in residential areas, now everyone whines that they’re in town. Can’t win. The council can’t stop the unis expanding (Brexit and corona might though).

Your problem appears to be letting the market decide and not having a centrally planned system.

 

[clint van damme]

Agree with your overall point. But the very reason property investors build student flats is that there isn’t enough of them and there’s high demand. Same for high quality office space meaning we can’t attract decent paying jobs. The council build very little themselves and can only approve or deny what’s put in front of them according to planning laws. A decade ago all the complaints were about students taking up family homes in residential areas, now everyone whines that they’re in town. Can’t win. The council can’t stop the unis expanding (Brexit and corona might though).

Your problem appears to be letting the market decide and not having a centrally planned system.

The council can ask developers to make certain amendments to their plans before approving them though.

They've signed off many industrial developments without insisting x amount of units have 3 phase capacity.
It's cost the city a lot of manufacturing jobs (slightly off tangent to what you're talking about I know).

I actually have no problem with the student developments. I think there are actually a fair few benefits to them

 

[torchomatic]

Shame. With City being in Birmingham there is absolutely zero reason to visit Coventry now.

 

[Terry_dactyl]

Shame. With City being in Birmingham there is absolutely zero reason to visit Coventry now.

What about Inter Shop?

 

[Otis]

Shame. With City being in Birmingham there is absolutely zero reason to visit Coventry now.

Yeah, get that if you are from outside the city.

Getting very good now for restaurants and there is now of course, The Wave, but, for shopping it is not great at all.

I do still love Fargo and the old cathedral and the two museums though.

 

[Nick]

Yeah, get that if you are from outside the city.

Getting very good now for restaurants and there is now of course, The Wave, but, for shopping it is not great at all.

I do still love Fargo and the old cathedral and the two museums though.

Same as always though, it's not something you venture in for a lot of the time.

The wave maybe but the issues they have had since opening hasn't helped, I doubt it's anywhere near as popular as the one in Stoke on Trent.

 

[torchomatic]

Yeah, get that if you are from outside the city.

Getting very good now for restaurants and there is now of course, The Wave, but, for shopping it is not great at all.

I do still love Fargo and the old cathedral and the two museums though.

Yeah OK, cathedrals, Fargo, museums...but what else has Coventry got....

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

There's something
For everyone
At Coventry retail market
:cat::linkme:

 

[Covcraig@bury]

Hearsall common . Loads of room for parking . Great access to the motorway network.Canley holt train station close by , and shit loads of pubs . And it will keep the pikeys off .