Proposals to knock down parts of Coventry’s grade II-listed post-war civic centre to make way for a Broadway Malyan-designed university building have been attacked by the Twentieth Century Society.

The campaign group said the scheme, focused on the city’s former Architecture and Town Planning Department Studio Block, was the “latest in a long line of serious threats” to the city’s post-war architectural heritage.

Designed by George Sealey, working under Arthur Ling, and built between 1957 and 1959, the block is the only remaining part of the council’s post-war civic centre.

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