Huge new City Center North regeneration project planned for Coventry city centre

A huge new regeneration project is planned for Coventry. Dubbed the “City North Centre”, it would cover an area next to the city’s transport museum.

New homes, public spaces and transport links are part of early plans for the site. The project is being promoted by Coventry Council as an opportunity for a “strategic investor” to work in partnership with them.

Their work would lead to a “significant increase in housing”, in the centre, according to the council’s website. While the project is in the “concept” stage, some details of the council’s goals are outlined in a description on its website.

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The scheme would be mixed use, meaning it would involve both residential and other spaces. It would include ‘access hubs’ which extend VLR Coventry links and make it easier to use public transport to get into the city.

The council also aims to “encourage new communities in the city centre”, it adds. “The way some people choose to live is changing, so we want to support this by delivering environments including new co-living centres, subscription homes, creative studios and live-work spaces, as well as new houses and apartments “, it’s said.

Plans for the scheme are set out in council papers for a meeting next week. It said the council looked at how land on the northern edge of the center could “accommodate physical regeneration and the development and delivery of new homes, while making better use of cultural and heritage assets, green space and the public domain”.

“This was completed in March 2024 and informs the wider City Center Vision and we are now looking at how to start delivering key sites in this area,” it said. Coventry regeneration boss Cllr Jim O’Boyle said he had been talking to various people about the project for a long time.

Asked when the council might bring the sites forward, he stressed the scheme was at “early days” and work was still ongoing at City Center South.

He said: “There are no immediate plans to bring any particular site forward. A number of works are being done to identify the potential benefits and challenges that the whole site could present.”

He added: “There’s still a lot to do, it’s just showing the potential for the future.”

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