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Transforming the city

The opportunity awaits…

• Getting Coventry ready for City of Culture

2021 and 2022 Commonwealth Games and creating a legacy for local people

• Public realm improvements and culture –

tools for regeneration – to maximise impact, accelerate change and boost investment

• Combining the best of the old and the best of

the new. Responding to the way city centres are changing

• Being part of a multi-disciplinary team in a

multi-cultural city responding to growth and regeneration to help shape our city

Are you ready for our challenge, do you have these qualities …

• Leadership: Establishing a team that can respond effectively to the opportunities before us
• Communication: Creating plans that people can support
• Engaging: Changing perceptions – we want Coventry to be a place people want to live, work

and visit

• Strategic: Ensuring the city stays open for business while the work is underway
• Motivated: Creating a place we can all be proud of
• Dynamic: How to combine the best of the old and the best of the new

Joining the dots and linking up the previous improvements

• Station to city centre
• Outside Holy Trinity Church
• Broadgate
• Council House Square

• 6 high octane water slides
• 25m swimming pool
• Gym
• Fitness Classes
• Spa

The Wave

• Demolition of tower blocks
• Opening up views of Spires
• Legibility
• Improving skyline and environment

Coventry Point

• Re-establishing historic form
• Opening up views
• Improved legibility

Removal of Nationwide

• 600 space city centre car park
• Linked to leisure destination

Salt Lane Car Park

• Re-branding and changing the use
• Renovating existing under-utilised

building

• Improving F&B offer – 7 new

restaurants

Cathedral Lanes

• Re-configuration of retail space
• Removal of external escalator
• Enhanced public realm – welcoming, usable

Upper Precinct

Waterpark and Bull Yard

• Re-configured open space
• High quality usable public realm
• Improved setting for Spire and Water Park

Railway Station

• New multi-storey car park
• Enhanced legibility and movement
• Improved and high quality public realm

Friargate

• High quality office space
• Sustainable location
• Inward investment

Former Co-op Building

• Re-use of redundant retail store – locally

listed

• Mixed use at ground floor
• Modern residential living at floors 1, 2 and 3

Coventry Telegraph

• Re-use of redundant office
• Retail / leisure space
• 125-250 bed hotel
• Student accommodation
• Residential apartments
• Office Space

Student Residential

Boys/Girls Club 778 student bed spaces 1070 self contained student studios 586 student bed spaces

Student Residential

Ground floor commercial space 1116 student bed spaces Ground floor F&B use 600 student bed spaces Ground retail use 391 student bed spaces

Innovation further afield:

• Expansion of JLR headquarters
• Innovation in the motor industry at

University of Warwick and Warwick Manufacturing Group

• Low Carbon Technology Centre in

association with Coventry University

Combining the best of the old with the best of the new