Coventry - Redevelopment

[Leofric]

Originally Posted by chillitt

apologies, i can clearly read, i can not believe there would be 2 tile hills...even if one is called a village. (calm down, dear..)

It's only a commercial:-)

Before "Tile Hill" was built, there was indeed a village/hamlet called Tile Hill.

Similarly for Foleshill, Stoke, Walsgrave, Radford, Longford, Bell Green...There are about four "Stokes" and what is now called the "Centre" of Foleshill is quite a way from what was the old village. Similarly, Allesley was originally a village (Still there) but other areas are called Allesley.

[cathidaw]

I wouldn't agree that Foleshill is that deprived. It is old but thriving. The regenerated shops with their new fronts look very attractive and they have really gone to town with the lettering on the shop logos. Have a look when you go by--some of the calligraphy is beautiful.
The problem is that they are very mixed up with car hire firms and odd buildings dotted along the road which does not add to the 'beauty' of the environment so anyone passing through Foleshill Road sees a hotch potch of houses and buildings.
I really like the blue ribbon structure too at the big island pointing to the M6

I do quite a lot of shopping there- especially fruit and veg. parking is free and shops open late.

I also usually go to the sports centre to swim--Remember old Livingstone Rd baths anyone? freezin cubicles and the old mangle for wet swimsuits
. I learned to swim there centuries ago and it still hadn't changed muchuntil it closed last month for regeneration.
We have a lovely pool here in Bedworth but unless one gets up early to swim there the days are taken up with sessions for schools, clubs O.A.Ps.and suchlike--or maybe Iam sentimental about the other one. I hope they don't modernise it too much.

[Madhatter]

Leofric stop saying my ringroad is a ugly heap. That ring road is the best inner city ring road in the world.
Well Perhaps not the worl but certainly in this country. Name One that gets round a CITY CENTRE as quickly and as smothley as that and has less congestion. That ring road is pure genious and should get recognition for what it is.
It's no point trying to say its not I've conversed about it to several professional drivers each on seperate occasions and they all say how wonderful it is.
It's also incredibly safe if poeple drive correctly, so safe infact they took the speed cameras back off it.

Foleshill, haven't been for a while but alwys looks run down to me. All cities have areas like it. Leicester is Narborough road in and the I think the A6? out up to thorn lighting.
Liverpool has a few roads like it edge lane goes from cafe's, restaurants, cinemas, to empty warehouses waste land then housing mixed with small run down shops. Smithdown road is another. Eigbeth drive another. Featureless ribbons of neglected shops mixed with housing and industry.
If these streets were given a freshen up, made a bit more tidier trendy like they are in london they'd become attractive havens of independant shops.
They all desserve a good glean, paint new signs shop fronts, new paths, lighting street furniture planters etc.
I'm not sure if its going but cov was running a survey called coventry inspires. It was all about ideas to improve cov

Personally I think this country is going down the pan, yes cov is improving in a lot of areas, so is Bedworth Nuneaton Atherstone, but I think its a losing battle because it's us doing it, the people not central government. Tax is took off businesses in these areas and not fed back in, any investment is got by local people, businesses and councillors fighting for funding and match funding. It's not getting better either, I've watched it get worse and worse over the last 5 years.

[cathidaw]

Iagree about the ring road --it does what it is supposed to do, also if you take the wrong exit it's easy to get back on....not like Birmingham where you end up in Edgbaston if you miss the exit --at least I do!. tRYING TO GET TO THE REP CONFUSES ME I END UP sneakily GOING THE WRONG WAY ON THE ONE WAY EXIT.to get there.

Pity about Bedworth-
it's quite attractive now,with the alms houses and church and the lovely park, but the shops are rubbish for a shopping centre- 5 charity shops- 4 or 5 card shops, cheap shoe, and teenage clothes shops, Woolies and the usual chemists. In the slummy days when I first moved here ,one could buy anything, --there were some good shops and there was a decent street market3 times a week. Now the market is psuedo Victorian posh and tucked away-even the traders don't like it-what few turn up.
Maybe if and when Aldi opens more people will shop here. although Tesco is closing in a couple of years.

[Leofric]

Originally Posted by chillitt

apologies, i can clearly read, i can not believe there would be 2 tile hills...even if one is called a village. (calm down, dear..)

Sorry for being so abrupt...

Yes, there's a "Tile Hill Village" which is near Tile Hill station... It's quite a way from Jardine Crescent, which is what people generally consider to be "tile hill"... Much of Tile Hill is OK... Fairly average suburbia, with plenty of new houses on the edges.

[Leofric]

Originally Posted by Madhatter

Leofric stop saying my ringroad is a ugly heap. That ring road is the best inner city ring road in the world.
Well Perhaps not the worl but certainly in this country. Name One that gets round a CITY CENTRE as quickly and as smothley as that and has less congestion. That ring road is pure genious and should get recognition for what it is.
It's no point trying to say its not I've conversed about it to several professional drivers each on seperate occasions and they all say how wonderful it is.
It's also incredibly safe if poeple drive correctly, so safe infact they took the speed cameras back off it.

Foleshill, haven't been for a while but alwys looks run down to me. All cities have areas like it. Leicester is Narborough road in and the I think the A6? out up to thorn lighting.
Liverpool has a few roads like it edge lane goes from cafe's, restaurants, cinemas, to empty warehouses waste land then housing mixed with small run down shops. Smithdown road is another. Eigbeth drive another. Featureless ribbons of neglected shops mixed with housing and industry.
If these streets were given a freshen up, made a bit more tidier trendy like they are in london they'd become attractive havens of independant shops.
They all desserve a good glean, paint new signs shop fronts, new paths, lighting street furniture planters etc.
I'm not sure if its going but cov was running a survey called coventry inspires. It was all about ideas to improve cov

Personally I think this country is going down the pan, yes cov is improving in a lot of areas, so is Bedworth Nuneaton Atherstone, but I think its a losing battle because it's us doing it, the people not central government. Tax is took off businesses in these areas and not fed back in, any investment is got by local people, businesses and councillors fighting for funding and match funding. It's not getting better either, I've watched it get worse and worse over the last 5 years.

The ringroad has been responsible for killing Coventry over the years, and it has cut off most of the roads into the city centre. It's widely considered to be a planning disaster...

Most other cities don't have ringroads like it for one good reason - they're a bad idea.

[skydakini]

Hay all,

Have we forgotten to mention Paradise...an area of Coventry i was told in my first week was completely inappropriately named...but never made it there so no idea....do tell.....

hugs, Skydancer xxx

[jj70]

From what i understand Paradise is in the Stoney Stanton Rd ( off Red Lane ) area surrounding the old GEC works, it was or probably still is a cheap property market area.

[cathidaw]

Why did 'they' call these areas by romantic names, 'Paradise'--'Bermuda' (in Nuneaton) 'Paradise Street in Coventry==and they are the most depressing places. Maybe 'they' were disillusioned people and were thinking of ''Paradise Lost'
That also I thought most depressing

Paradise Street in Coventry was where all the doss houses were when Iwent to school-the men-always men-were turned out at 8.30 every morning and stood on the street corner til the time they were allowed in again. There were crowds of them--mixed up with the Salvation Army dossers from the hostel across the road who were also tipped out about the same time. . Now that is what is called charity
We kids thought it scary but exciting too. Winter was bad too. Not many had many clothes -sometimes they had blankets around them.or anything they could get.
Bermuda in Nuneaton was a deprived area too-cottages were built for the workers at Bermuda pit. Now it is becoming a desirable area--but the surroundings and approach to it are crummy.My son dug there in the late 90s(archaeologist) and some of the tales the older people told him were bad. Earth floors--well water--cold --damp--bugs--disease.
Paradise in Stoney Stanton Rd is --well, still dreary, and blink as you pass it and it's gone.
Yes Ithink the houses are cheaper.

[jj70]

The Paradise area did actually have the old munitions works that became the GEC, so probably named that one mistake at the factory and everyone in the local area would be instantly in Paradise.