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Contact the Planning team.

This page provides details of how to contact a member of the Planning Team.

Please use our generic email address planning@coventry.gov.uk or select the Customer Services and Performance Team. All emails will be acknowledged and passed to the relevant officer for a response in line with our Planning Customer Charter.

Please contact the Development Management Team by using the numbers provided in the attached pdf file. New numbers are being issued for each memeber of the Team but they will take some time to go live. If you have any difficulty contacting an officer, please email using addresses provided below or contact the Planning Advisory Desk direct on 024 7683 1212 who will be able to help.

(Telephone number for Development Management 16.07.2007. (size 25kb)

City Planning Manager - Lesley Wroe - email : lesley.wroe@coventry.gov.uk

Select the link below to find the contact details

Customer Services and Performance

For all general enquiries concerning planning in Coventry

Development Management

Contacts for case officers working on current planning applications (please forward general correspondence to planning@coventry.gov.uk

North West

(Bablake - Sherbourne - Whoberley - St. Michael's - Woodlands)

North East

(Holbrooks - Longford - Henley - Upper Stoke - Foleshill - Radford)

South

(Westwood - Wainbody - Earlsdon - Cheylesmore - Binley and Willenhall - Lower Stoke - Wyken)

Development Plans

Contact officers for questions and queries relating to the preparation of the Local Development Framework (or LDF for short), Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) and the annual monitoring of the exisiting plan for Coventry - the 2001 Coventry Development Plan (CDP).

Development projects

Officers dealing with all major schemes within the City.

Development Management

If you want to comment on a current application then please, where possible, search for the application on our planning search page and select the 'make comment' button. This will ensure that your comments are sent direclty to the application.

  • If you want advice about work you are considering then you can get informal advice prior to making an application by using our pre-application enquiry page
  • If you want to know if you require planning permission then you should use the information pages on our How to apply page, or if you need further help you should contact the Planning Advisory Team email: planning@coventry.gov.uk

Team Leader - Richard Sykes -  email: richard.sykes@coventry.gov.uk

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South

Development in Westwood, Wainbody, Earlsdon, Cheylesmore, Binley and Willenhall, Lower Stoke and Wyken

Principal Planner (South) -Marcus Fothergill - email: marcus.fothergill@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Assistant - Sarah James - email: sarah.james@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Assistant- Alfia Cox email: alfia.cox@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Technician - Jackie Daley - email: jackie.daley@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Technician - Richard Gibb- email: richard.gibb@coventry.gov.uk

Enforcement Officer - Paul Perry - email: paul.perry@coventry.gov.uk

Enforcement Officer - Ben Jephcott - email: ben.jephcott@coventry.gov.uk

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North East

Development in Holbrooks - Longford - Henley - Upper Stoke - Foleshill - Radford

Principle Planner - Geoff Horsman email: geoff.horsman@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Officer - Jessica Lai email: jessica.lai@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Assistant - Shamim Chowdhury email: shamim.chowdhury@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Technician - Melvin Nyoro- email: melvin.nyoro@coventry.gov.uk

Senior Enforcement Officer - Bob Kendall email: bob.kendall@coventry.gov.uk

Enforcement Officer - Ben Jephcott email: ben.jephcott@coventry.gov.uk

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North West

Development in Bablake - Sherbourne - Whoberley - St. Michael's - Woodlands

Principal Planner Nigel Smith email: nigel.smith@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Assistant - Mary-Ann Jones email: mary-ann.jones@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Officer - Ciaran Power email: ciaran.power@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Technician - Thalia Hobson email: thalia.hobson@coventry.gov.uk

Enforcement Officer - Martin Potts email: martin.potts@coventry.gov.uk

Enforcement Officer - Jonathan Warner email: jonathan.warner@coventry.gov.uk

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Development Plans

Team Leader - Niall McChesney email: niall.mcchesney@coventry.gov.uk

Principal Planning Officer - Jim Newton email: jim.newton@coventry.gov.uk

Senior Planning Officer - Rob Haigh email: rob.haigh@coventry.gov.uk

Senior Planning Officer/Countryside Project Officer - Mike Murray - email: mike.murray@coventry.gov.uk

Countryside Field Officer - Simon Holloway email: mike.murray@coventry.gov.uk

Countryside Field Officer - David Lingen email: mike.murray@coventry.gov.uk

Senior Planning Officer - Martin Trewinnard email: martin.trewinnard@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Officer - Donagh McLaughlin email: donagh.mclaughlin@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Officer - Mark Andrews email: mark.andrews@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Technician - Tom Gardner email: tom.gardner@coventry.gov.uk

Development Planning, Monitoring & Liaison Officer - Chris Berry email: christopher.berry@coventry.gov.uk

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Development Projects

Team Leader - Claire Tucker email: claire.tucker@coventry.gov.uk

Team Leader - Ian Prowse email: ian.prowse@coventry.gov.uk

Senior Planning Officer - Rowan Reid email: rowan.reid@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Officer - Anne Reed email: anne.reed@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Officer - Anne Denby - email: anne.denby@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Officer - Rebecca Hughes - email: rebecca.hughes@coventry.gov.uk

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Customer support and Performance

Bernie Robinson - Customer Services and Performance Manager - email: bernie.robinson@coventry.gov.uk

Access Officer -Mark Dale email: mark.dale@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Liason and Development Officer - Chris Dowell email: chris.dowell@coventry.gov.uk

Planning Advisory Desk - email planning@coventry.gov.uk

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Contact

City Planning
Civic Centre 4
Much Park Street
Coventry
CV1 2PY
telephone: 024 76 831212 or 024 76 831213
email planning@coventry.gov.uk

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