City car park set to reopen as others close

Whitefriars Street car park has been closed since January 2021

A Coventry car park is set to reopen to the public for the first time in almost four years, but two other larger parking areas are being removed.

The Whitefriars Street site near Coventry University is to become a long-stay pay & display facility, according to a recent public notice.

The council closed the 115-space car park in January 2021, as the pandemic led to a "financially unsustainable" rise in empty spaces in car parks across the city.

Part of the reason for reopening the site is to reduce the impact of shutting the multi-storey Barracks car park in the city centre, which is to be demolished as part of the City Centre South scheme.

The 460-space Barracks car park is being permanently closed on 24 November.

Coventry’s 231-space City Arcade car park is also due to be demolished to make way for the huge regeneration project.

It has already been shut due to what the council has described as a "serious structural issue".

Whitefriars Street car park would be reopening on a "temporary basis", confirmed the council, with a public notice indicating the plan could be realised from Monday 25 November.

Earlier this year, a 1970s car park at New Union Street was knocked down, with the council turning it into a temporary surface car park with 82 spaces.

This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations.