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Representation ID: 5442

Received: 05/03/2015

Respondent: Ipswich Central

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Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Retail Development and Main Town Centre issues (P59) - we await details of how the Council proposes to "promote high quality investment and development". In our view, in the retail (including leisure) sector, the issue is not so much vacancy rates (which remain below national averages) but, rather, attracting missing retail names through proactive and entrepreneurial inward investment techniques. We would appreciate urgent discussions on how this should be delivered and whether the responsibility may sit best with ourselves, subject to suitable funding being identified.