The WMRR Campaign is crowdfunding to start the design of the new skatepark at the War Memorial Park.
For more details go to WMRR Crowdfunding
Police Message – Vehicle Theft
A theft from vehicle has occurred in Earlsdon Street, between 13:00 – 14:00 hours on 21st July.
If you saw any suspicious activity in that area during the material times, or you have CCTV or dashcam footage of the incident, please contact West Midlands Police by telephoning 101 or by going online to www.west-midlands.police.uk/contact-us/live-chat .
For information about security and crime prevention please visit:
Earlsdon Library Reopening Still Not Scheduled
Nursery Tavern reopening
The Nursery Tavern will reopen at 12noon on Monday 6 July.
Payments will be accepted either in cash or via the Round app, which can be downloaded from the App Store for iPhone or Google Play for Android devices. Please download Round before going to the pub.
Arches reopening gig cancelled
The Arches Venue has announced the cancellation of the acoustic all-day event that was to take place on 4 July 2020 (see page 22 of ECHO’s July issue).
This is in response to government rules surrounding the coronavirus and emerging from the lockdown.
Bunting for Hope
To accompany the article, Bunting for Hope on page 9 of July’s issue of ECHO, here is the pattern for creating triangles: Bunting for Hope
ECHO AVAILABILITY
A reminder that copies of ECHO are available from most of its regular outlets but there are still some which are closed.
The ‘closed’ list includes the churches, Earlsdon Library, Coventry Resource Centre for the Blind and Hearsall Golf Club.
The ‘open’ list is:
Broomfield News
Butts News
Earlsdon St P.O.
Hearsall News, Hearsall Lane
Costcutter, Sovereign Rd
Shop Local, Upper Spon Street
Co-op, Allesley Old Road
Co-op, Earlsdon Street.
Earlsdon Park Village shop
Gabriel’s Chip Shop
Roskell’s Pharmacy
Popping Cork
Taylors Butchers
A.P. Harvey
Wint’s Wines
Earlsdon Traditional Meats
Our thanks to our sellers for helping us to keep our circulation up during lockdown.
Crime Notifications from WM Police
A burglary occurred at a business premises on Allesley Old Road, between the junctions of Lord Street and Mount Street, between 4 and 6 June.
A theft from a motor vehicle occurred in Queensland Avenue, near to the junction of Abercorn Road, shortly after 13.00 on 6 June. A Catalytic Converter was stolen from under the vehicle.
A vehicle was stolen without keys from outside a residential address in Oldfield Road in between the junctions of Billing Road and Crosbie Road, between 11.00 and 23.30 on 7 June.
If you saw any suspicious activity relating to any of the above incidents in the area during the material times, or you have CCTV or dashcam footage of any of the incidents, please contact West Midlands Police by telephoning 101 or by going online to: Live Chat
For information about security and crime prevention please visit Security
Planning Application Concern
We have been asked by a reader to draw attention to an outline planning application, details of which are at the link below:
Strictly speaking this is outside our area, being in Abbot’s Lane which is really Coundon / City Centre, but since it will impact Spon End, which is in our area, we are happy to oblige. ECHO has not had time, or until now any specific reason, to investigate this but the reader’s comments, edited down slightly to cover the key details, are as follows:
“It’s supposed to be a Medieval, Listed, Heritage Conservation Area…. A street dating back to 12th Century.
It’s much bigger than you think/realise – intertwined with pouring traffic and pollution into Upper Hill Street and just to add to the fun opening the street onto the Ring Road while closing Barras Lane.. That’s a separate plan and another story – then throw 2 cycle Lanes and bikes and kids going to school into the mix and you can really have a laugh!
We can all party watching chaos and accidents while standing in the diesel traffic fumes.
Anyone can still send in comments to the development plan so alert anyone you know who cares about children or local residents to join us please. A petition is also on the way…
Look Up re the site & Plans for 731 FLATS (1 & 2 Bed Flats – No houses or gardens for families..) Guess how many more cars will be in and out re residents and visitors plus the offices and stuff (731 Flats is conservatively estimated to produce an extra 766+ vehicles) using the one access opposite a Primary School Planning Ref: OM/2020/0935 – Objections close 11th June but comments asap still being accepted”.
Chip Shop to Re-open
One of Earlsdon’s longest running establishments will be back in business shortly. When open Gabriel’s will also be, incidentally, another place where you can buy your copy of ECHO.
