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Representation ID: 834

Received: 10/03/2014

Respondent: Save Our Country Spaces

Representation Summary:

Assumptions, projections and estimates behind the growth agenda pursued since 2001 have not stood the test of time. New jobs have not materialised and Ipswich has lost manufacturing jobs. The result is a predominantly low waged and low skilled economy with a high level of youth need. Ipswich housing is relatively cheap and Ipswich has high urban densities compared to Suffolk. Thus Ipswich features adversely in terms of deprivation in the Institute for Economics and Peace study April 2013. In the SA, Hyder should examine the impacts of lack of employment together with crime and anti social behaviour statistics.

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