Protest rally

LATEST NEWS - 01/07/10

Coventry Core Strategy.
Examiner's report to be discussed at council meeting on 6th July

Following the publication of the examiners report council officers Jim Newton (Principal Planner, Joint Policy) & Trevor Errington (Assistant Director, Planning and Transportation) have produced Report 7.1 , a precis of the examiner's findings. A full council meeting, to be held at 2pm on Tuesday 6th July, will discuss this and the current action to be taken with regard to the core strategy.

A note on the council website states:
Please note: As a result of the new government's public commitment to abolish Regional Spatial Strategies, we have suspended further work on our Core Strategy until there is clarity about new responsibilities and roles for local authorities. Once we have this clarity we will be issuing a public statement about our future plans. more....

GREENBELT RALLY

Saturday 24th April 2010
Coventry City Centre

The Rally was excellent –
a lot of people were on the march, and we attracted a good deal of attention through Broadgate.

Mike O’Brien, Geoffrey Robinson, Nobby Clarke, John Mutton, Andrew Burtenshaw and other prominent figures were there. Conspicuous by their absence were any Conservative members of Coventry City Council. Perhaps they were uncomfortable about defending the Core Stragey?

New housing for
Keresley Newlands
A proposal by the Cassidy Group
was recently put forward at the
Keresley Parish council
meeting.
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Walk and Protest rally

The starting point

Saturday 14th November 2009 at the Central Methodist Hall
in Warwick Lane, Coventry CV1 2HA.

On Tuesday 10th of November the public examination of the Coventry Core Strategy
began, a four week process.

A rally to protest about proposals in this Core Strategy for housing on the Green belt land around Coventry. took pace with a walk through city centre to the Council House to protest about
the lack of consultation and the imposition of a strategy none of us support.

The walk

At 11.30am groups of protestors, including MPs and Councillors, made their way to the Council House in arriving for the rally at noon. First walking down the Bull Yard then turning right into Market Way passing
Tesco's & British Home Stores. At the fountain turning right to pass Marks & Spencer and on through the Upper Precinct, to Broadgate. Stops were made at the Godiva statue in Cathedral Lanes and in front of the Cathedral. Upon reaching the steps of the Council House the MPs and Councillors, as well as others addressed the protestors to show thier support for the campaign.
ITV news were in attendance and their news report appeared on the Saturday evening news.

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Geoffrey Robinson MP supporting the cause

More photos of the rally can be seen here.

The START and FINISH points are shown on the map below.