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Representation ID: 5340

Received: 05/03/2015

Respondent: Legal and General Assurance Society Limited (L&G)

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The DTZ report provides insufficient evidence to justify the reduction in new retail floorspace. The 2010 retail capacity study should be updated now to inform policy.
Policy is not positively prepared and could sterilise Ipswich town centre for medium to large scale retail development for 11 years, having serious implications on the vitality and viability of the centre.
Additional specific issues: other prospective development sites (e.g. Jewsons) were not considered by the DTZ report; the reduction of retail floorspace is arbitrary; CS14 restricts large scale retail development to one site.