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The Council House, Coventry in Coventry, England, is a Tudor Revival style city hall building which is the home of Coventry City Council and the seat of local government. It was built in the early 20th century. It is a Grade II-listed building. [1]
Whitefriars Homes North, South and Services Limited (later becoming Whitefriars Housing Group in May 2006) were created in the lead up to September 2000 by Coventry City Council at a non-refundable cost of £2.3m to the taxpayer ahead of the outcome of a legally required tenant ballot under Schedule 3A of the Housing Act 1985 (before it was ...
Coventry City Council is the local authority for the city of Coventry in the West Midlands, England. Coventry has had a council from medieval times, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city.
Stoney Road Allotments consists of 123 council-owned allotments covering around 5 hectares just south of Coventry city centre. [1] They were created in the mid 19th century as pleasure-gardens for the people of the city, and were Grade II* listed in 2001.
Each twin city country is represented in a specific ward of the city and in each ward has a peace garden dedicated to that twin city. Coventry is now twinned with 26 places across the world: [116] [117] On 22 March 2022, Coventry City Council voted unanimously to suspend the twinning arrangement with Volgograd in light of the 2022 Russian ...
The CV postcode area, also known as the Coventry postcode area, [2] is a group of 24 postcode districts in central England, within eleven post towns. These cover the eastern part of the West Midlands county (including Coventry), most of Warwickshire (including Atherstone, Bedworth, Kenilworth, Leamington Spa, Nuneaton, Rugby, Shipston-on-Stour, Southam, Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick), a part ...
The building is designed to look like an elephant in reference to the coat of arms of the city of Coventry, which shows Coventry Castle being carried on the back of an elephant. [5] Elephants are a popular motif in the civic life of Coventry, appearing on the logo of Coventry City F.C. and Coventry R.F.C. as well as the badge of HMS Coventry ...
It has hosted other sporting events including preliminary round football during the London 2012 Olympics (during which it was renamed the City of Coventry Stadium), and several music concerts. Notable acts who have played here include Bon Jovi 2008, Take That June 2009, and reformed Coventry bands The Specials and also The Enemy .