Six new houses to be built on disused freight rail line in Coventry

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The two and three-bed houses will be built on land that formed part of the two-mile Coventry Loop line



Planning chiefs have approved plans for six houses to be built on a disused railway line in Coventry.

Three two-bed and three three-bed homes will be built on land once occupied by the former Coventry Loop Line, just off Humber Avenue.

According to council planning officers, the land is currently heavily overgrown and in a ‘bad state’.

A previous application for seven homes was turned down in 2014 due to the the loss of green space. Since then, the plans have been altered and work will begin to clear the land first before any building can be started.

The Coventry Loop Line was a freight only branch which ran from Three Spires Junction on the Coventry-Nuneaton Line to Humber Road Junction on the Coventry-Rugby Line.

It had two goods stations at Bell Green and Gosford Green, as well as a number of sidings serving local industries, but never had any scheduled passenger service.

The line was built so freight trains could avoid running through Coventry station, and was first opened in 1914.

Humber Road Junction was closed in 1963, after goods traffic dwindled, and so the branch became a long siding from Three Spires junction.

The last traffic to the Chrysler factory ended in 1981, and the rest of the branch closed in September that year.

The track was lifted in 1982. Much of the former trackbed of the line has since been turned into the A444.