[Madhatter]

That would be constructive critiscism then, 'non entity dump', lol proves how little you know, if you going to criticise somewhere at least find out first. Atherston is a far better place to live than coventry.
Coventry most definately is a concrete jungle and is certainly a dirty fithy dump in the city centre, I was there last weekend, I saw. The precinct is not stone it's concrete, anybody can see the precinct is brick and concrete. It along with the ring road may be two of the greatest feats of civil engineering and urban planning built under the gibson plan because they were ground breaking at the time. It may even be listed, plenty concrete buildings are grade II, but it doesn't change the fact that it is bland and uninteresting and a lot of the areas are filthy. Monstrosity Square in front of the excellent Motor Museum does nothing for Coventry, it's simply adding to the urban out of date look for the future. Why not build something of note with some archtecture. You only have to go around the back of the motor museum to see a very different view.

This is why you know very little... Earlsdon is a suburb of a big city, it comes under coventry city council who run coventry, a dense, heavily populated area. To do something in Coventry or Earlsdon takes very little cash in order for all to benefit.
Ath on the other hand, and Coleshill are North Warwickshire and are rural towns, Ath and Coleshills tax has to pay for not only the small populations of the two main towns but smaller villages and hamlets all over North Warwickshire, the hinterlands, which still need services, facilities and maintenance despite there being only a hand full of people living there. The diffence between running a tower block with hundreds paying rent and a sprawling country estate with a hand full paying rent. Obvious which will be the most well off.
The insult doesn't end there though, we have high business rates, rates which go into central government pot, and then dished back out, only they aren't dished back out in proportion to how they were collected. We get less than is collected

This is why everything that you take for granted to make your towns and cities nice we have to work for and get the money from elsewhere, even down to summer flowers and Christmas lighting, which are mostly paid for by donations.
Therefore I think size for size and population I think therstone is far superior, far cleaner, has more facilities, more shops than equivalent sized towns, more impressive old buildings, has done more to build the town, up, and has a far greater sense of community.