Comment

Representation ID: 24651

Received: 16/10/2017

Respondent: Alice Martin

Large areas of Ipswich remain undeveloped and a great focus should be placed on developing these. A number of retail units along Duke Street and Stoke Quay remain empty years after the developments were completed - this should act as a warning that the approach used here does not work.

Comment

Representation ID: 24695

Received: 24/10/2017

Respondent: Suffolk Preservation Society

A number of brownfield sites along Star Lane and Grafton Way which interrupt the connectivity between the historic core of the town and the Waterfront. Environmental improvements to these important streets would facilitate the regeneration of the town.

Comment

Representation ID: 24716

Received: 26/10/2017

Respondent: Mr Christopher Wrathall

There is an urgent, pressing need for an ambitious project that will a) reduce the number of road vehicles circulating around the town centre, especially through College Street and Star Lane, b) join up the Waterfront with the town centre by creating more pedestrian/cyclist areas and c) transform the unsightly brown sites close to the Waterfront through intelligent, cost-effective development.

Comment

Representation ID: 24742

Received: 27/10/2017

Respondent: Mr Peter Sutters

The dual carriageway Old London Road leads on to Chapel Lane / Swan Hill. It is overwhelmed when there are problems with the Copdock Interchange and when accidents or closure affect the Orwell Bridge.
Anything other than small scale development will add to traffic problems. The road infrastructure needs attention before any large scale building is approved.

Comment

Representation ID: 24766

Received: 30/10/2017

Respondent: Mr Andrew Hunter

Continuing expansion of retail centres and business parks on the east side of Ipswich act as honeypots for more traffic congestion. The local plan should aim to bring greater focus to the town centre and the Waterfront area. There remains undeveloped land between the town centre and the Waterfront area and on the Waterfront itself. The one way road system between the town centre and the Waterfront badly needs improvement.

Comment

Representation ID: 24841

Received: 24/10/2017

Respondent: Suffolk Constabulary

Town centre has numerous empty premises which attract ASB and criminal behaviour.
Lack of community cohesion, especially amongst those who do not speak English, leading to isolation.
Lack of appropriate facilities for young people.
Housing vulnerable people and those inclined to criminal/ASB activity together (ie in the same block of flats)

Comment

Representation ID: 24896

Received: 27/10/2017

Respondent: Historic England

Further work to improve the evidence base on the Ipswich Waterfront and its connectivity to the town centre. The strategic direction for this area lacks clarity with the layers of the Ipswich Vision, IP-ONE areas and individual site allocations. The relevant conservation area appraisals are notably out of date and the key area of connectivity between them is not covered by a conservation area, despite the significant heritage in the area. See also answer to Question 85.

Comment

Representation ID: 24922

Received: 29/10/2017

Respondent: Tuddenham St Martin Parish Council

The development restrictions on villages included in the category of 'Other Village' in the Settlement Hierarchy classification sterilises any improvement of the village and prevents any housing development.
Tuddenham St Martin Parish Council has strong objections to any potential plots identified which would add to the physical separation of villages from Ipswich and also have a negative impact on the highway infrastructure and limited school provision in the area.

Comment

Representation ID: 24956

Received: 25/10/2017

Respondent: Northern Fringe Protection Group

Transport/congestion/poor sustainable travel options and air quality. Lack of high quality jobs and the need to improve green space/corridors.

Comment

Representation ID: 25035

Received: 31/10/2017

Respondent: Save Our Country Spaces

Transport/congestion/poor sustainable travel options and air quality. Lack of high quality jobs and the need to improve green space/corridors.

Comment

Representation ID: 25358

Received: 30/10/2017

Respondent: Pigeon Investment Management Ltd

The town has not reached its potential in terms of retail or employment growth. The amount and type of new housing delivered in the Borough has been constrained for many years with under provision of good quality family housing as a result of the focus on high density development. This has constrained retail and employment growth. If projects like the northern fringe had been started say 15-20 years earlier then the growth of housing would have helped enhance the town centre through increased demand for retail services, and would have improved the local employment base by providing a greater workforce.

Comment

Representation ID: 25462

Received: 31/10/2017

Respondent: Ipswich Community Media CIC

We have a sorely neglected area that has an estate with many boarded up areas; perhaps it would be fruitful to address a route to have community facilities that can bring safety, life and hope to some of these emerging communities? A long-standing empty boarded pub? Could communities be supported to understand how they might be empowered to use it?
Green areas - proven to bring a different energy to people, health wellbeing and areas.