Coventry City Centre Redevelopment

Clive Rosher, one of our local members, has a letter in this week's Coventry Observer, about the proposed redevelopment of the city centre of Coventry:

I am horrified by the proposal to demolish and rebuild the city centre.

Last year, the council published its Draft Climate Change Strategy in which it quite rightly sought to move to "One Planet Living" from our present unsustainable "Three Planet Living." This is an absolutely essential target which would be undermined by needlessly destroying existing buildings and rebuilding them twice as big to double the amount of shopping.

We are already pressed to shop 'til we drop. Instead, we should learn to be content with enough and remember that more than enough is too much. We must concentrate on minimising climate chaos and establishing a peaceful world in harmony with nature, where everyone the world over can enjoy neither poverty nor opulence, but a satisfactory degree of prosperity.