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Sports pitch, apartments and community centre planned on edge of Coventry city centre

Postby dutchman » Tue May 19, 2020 3:57 pm

It's in a prime site just outside the city centre

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A sports pitch, community centre and apartments are planned as part of ambitious proposals to transform a car park on the edge of Coventry city centre.

The Gurdwara Guru Nanak Parkash temple has been using 1 Lincoln Street as a temporary car park for its visitors since 2014 but has now lodged plans with the city council to turn it into a scheme “for the wider community”.

The scheme would be split on one side with a three-storey apartment block consisting of 12 two-bed and three one-bed apartments accessed off Harnall Lane, and a community centre on the other side accessed off Lincoln Street.

The 1,000sqm two-storey community centre would include a restaurant, sports changing rooms, performance space, and educational facilities.

Both would be separated by a 540sqm all-weather artificial grass pitch in the middle.

A planning statement submitted to the council said: “The proposal includes a sports facility, restaurant and conference rooms that will be accessible for the wider community to use and benefit from.

“This scheme will be a gateway development will take a temporary car park site and transform it into a mixed-use high quality development for the benefit of Coventry residents and visitors to the city.”

The scheme also includes ‘undercroft’ parking with 86 spaces and an additional 32 spaces outside, 10 of which will be disabled spaces.

Community facilities and the car park will open from 8am until 10pm Monday to Friday, and 11am until 6pm on Saturday and Sunday.

The scheme is a re-submission of proposals put forward in 2017 but later withdrawn after concern over the loss of existing trees at the boundary, however the new plans now retain these.

The applicant has said the scheme is in line with the council’s City Centre Area Action Plan 2017, which designated it as a health and education area.

The site formerly housed a Salvation Army hostel but is now owned by the Sikh temple after purchasing the land from the city council.

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Re: Sports pitch, apartments and community centre planned on edge of Coventry city centre

Postby dutchman » Sun Aug 29, 2021 9:55 pm

Restaurant, apartments and community centre plan in Coventry approved

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Apartments, a community centre and a restaurant are to be built as part of ambitious proposals to transform a Coventry car park.

Plans have been approved on 1 Lincoln Street, which has been used by the Gurdwara Guru Nanak Parkash temple as a temporary car park for its visitors since 2014.

The temple lodged plans at the start of last year to turn it into a mixed-use scheme “for the wider community”.

The edge of city centre site is deemed a “major gateway” into Coventry, and as such was included in the council’s City Centre Area Action Plan 2017 and designated as a health and education area.

While the temple’s initial plans included a 540sqm all-weather artificial grass pitch in the middle, that has been removed as part of the revised bid due to concerns over light and noise pollution.

The new plans will create one three-storey building to the corner of Harnall Lane West and Foleshill Road which will contain 12 two-bed flats, and a second two-storey building to the south containing a community centre and restaurant.

Granting approval, planning officer Emma Spandley said: “The site is in a prominent location, on one of the major roads into the city.

“The city council has an aspiration for the site to be developed further.

“Taking all of the above into account, and on balance, it is considered that the proposal will provide a satisfactory living environment.”

Ms Spandley said the sports pitches were removed from the designs due to lack of detail over the floodlights and hours of use.

She said: “Consequently, it was deemed inadequate due to the close proximity of noise generating sources.”

Instead, a total of 160m2 of communal amenity space is being provided.

The site formerly housed a Salvation Army hostel but is now owned by the Sikh temple after purchasing the land from the city council.

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