Delay hits Coventry's Bishop Gate plans

[rebbonk]

It's crap!

[Melisandre]

Lol Dutchman a lot of old shoe boxes I feel a song coming on.

[dutchman]

How very appropriate Melisandre and to the forum.

[dutchman]

First image of 1,200-room student flats building on former Royal Mail site



The first image of a planned £73million student accommodation development in the city centre has been released.

Coventry University and Barberry Developments have released the artists’ impression just days after the last chunk of the former Royal Mail sorting Office, in Bishop Street, was pulled down.

The ‘BishopGate’ development will sit on the now vacant land opposite the Canal Basin and will include 1,200 student rooms with en-suite facilities, communal areas, seminar rooms, TV and games rooms, study rooms and a launderette.

A planning application has already been submitted to Coventry council by the two organisations and construction will begin once it is approved. If approved the first rooms will be available in three year’s time.

[Melisandre]

I voted ugly in the telegraph again blocking any view of the city and spires they just might as well built these in Hillfields where we are use to seeing high rised eyesores or bottom of Foleshill Rd by the canal instead not in the city it self. Most voted they liked it I wonder were they true Coventry people who voted which will be stuck with these eye sores that paid and made Coventry what it is today or students and out siders.

[rebbonk]

What is a 'true Coventry' person?

You'll never know because you aren't one!

[Melisandre]

I suspect you'll hate anything they build in Coventry.

The view of the spires was blocked before, so it's hardly a huge change.

Not that most people care too much if they can see those spires.

What is a 'true Coventry' person?

If its towering blocks like this squeezed into a little town yes

56 years ago I could see the Spires from that area

You must be a councilor to say that about who likes and does nt like the view of the spire s or one of the designers filling your pocket s. Or is it I am an ethnic minority in my home town in which I was born .

After all this time being on Coventry forums and you dont know what a true Coventry person is my my.

[dutchman]

Most voted they liked it I wonder were they true Coventry people who voted.

It's quite possible Melisandre as there is a whole generation born and bred here who couldn't care less about the old city and would be happy to see it all bulldozed. I don't think it's relevant to their views where a person originated from.

[dutchman]

What is a 'true Coventry' person?

Take the test here:

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/c ... ow-7288783

(not to be taken seriously)

Embarrassed to admit I passed despite the trick questions and the fact I don't even come from here!

Wow, you're as Coventry as can be. Cut you open and you bleed sky blue. You should run for MP and get the road works sorted.

[dutchman]

Talk about Straw Man arguments! So anyone who disagrees with your views wants 'Old' Coventry bulldozed?

That wasn't my point at all. My sole point was that it's largely irrelevant to their views on the subject where a person originated from.