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Avis Car Hire Tower Street, Coventry, CV1 1JN

FUL/2018/3368FULM major applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 6 March 2019

Council decision: Granted ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Demolition of existing buildings and erection of 7 town houses providing 84 student bedrooms with shared amenity space, including partial stopping-up of the adopted highway.

Received
5 December 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St. Michael's
  1. Received5 Dec
  2. Validated5 Dec
  3. Consult.25 Jan
  4. Target6 Mar
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 91 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Avis Car Hire Tower Street, Coventry, CV1 1JN. Coventry has handled 1,991 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 6 weeks longer than Coventry's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 145 applications across St. Michael's. We hold 1,238 applications in total for the CV1 postcode area.

84% of full applications at Coventry City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CV1 1JN
Application type
FULM major application
Scale / size
Large

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 December 2018
Consultation expiry
25 January 2019
Consultation end
25 January 2019
Target decision date
6 March 2019
Application expires
6 March 2019
Permission expires
5 March 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Documents
55

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Article 4 direction: Hmo - 30.9.23
  • Brownfield land register: Bishop Gate, Bishop Street/Tower Street, CV1 1AJRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Coventry

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