Mercia Business Village Torwood Close, Coventry, CV4 8HX Data via plota.co.uk

PL/2025/0000722/FULM - FULM major application Approved

Proposal

Demolition of existing buildings and erection of purpose-built student accommodation (1,006 units) with access, car parking, landscaping and amenity space, plant, cycle storage and associated works Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 10 Oct 2026, 06:41

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Application progress

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Received

31 Mar 2025

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Approved

5 Feb 2026

Approved on 5 Feb 2026 · Planning committee decision · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Coventry Planning Committee on 31 Jul 2025.

Approved

As officers recommended.

Officers advised approval because the proposal was acceptable in principle and would not harm highway safety or neighbours’ amenity.
Residents objected over student concentration, accommodation demand, infrastructure, highways, living standards, scale, construction impacts and employment land.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site context, officers’ assessment, objections, speakers and committee decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Coventry's committee minutes of 31 Jul 2025.

Documents 111

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision notice Decision notice · 5 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF Committee Report - 31.7.25 Planning committee report · 6 Aug 2025 View ↗

Statements & assessments 28

Plans & drawings 58

Application forms 2

PDF Application Form Application form (redacted) · 11 Apr 2025 View ↗ PDF Mercia Ownership Report and Owner Letters Supporting information · 1 Apr 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 2

PDF Draft agreement with comments Legal agreement · 4 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Late-Representations - 31.7.25 Late Representations · 6 Aug 2025 View ↗

Site constraints 8

Article 4 direction

HMO - 30.9.23. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.

An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.

Air quality management area: Coventry City-Wide AQMA

The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.

Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.

Council record ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Local nature reserve 310 m away: Park Wood

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Coalfield, development low risk area; Inside the Coventry built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 17 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Coventry
Application type: FULM major application
Postcode: CV4 8HX
Received: 31 Mar 2025
Validated: 31 Mar 2025
Ward: Westwood
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 5 Feb 2026
Decision: Granted Conditions
Decision date: 5 Feb 2026
Decision level: Planning committee decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Corstorphine & Wright

How this decision compares

Decided in 311 days from validation, 257 days slower than Coventry's median of 54 for demolitions. Approved, as 81% of demolitions here are.

This one311d

Council54d

UK56d

76%decided within 8 weeks

81%approved

85decided in the last year

Plota live figures for demolitions decided by Coventry in the last twelve months, from validation. Coventry decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Committee: 31 Jul 2025
Statutory expiry: 5 Feb 2026

Historical activity at this location

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Within ~100m

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Coventry

Planning Authority Score

7.7/10

Good

#35 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

Coventry is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #13 out of 296. Only 13% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (90%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Coventry decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

84%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #219 of 296

90%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #189 of 296

91%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #13 of 296

13%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #7 of 296

72%

Minor dwellings approved

114 decided (1-9 homes)

89%

Major dwellings approved

28 decided (10+ homes)

74%

Change of use approved

100 decided

1,131

Total decisions

186 refused in the year to March 2026

Mercia Business Village Torwood Close, Coventry, CV4 8HX Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Planning committee

Documents 111

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 28

Plans & drawings 58

Application forms 2

Consultation & comments 2

Other documents 19

Site constraints 8

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Consultation & key dates

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