Issues and Options for the Ipswich Local Plan Review

Comment

Representation ID: 25420

Received: 30/12/2017

Respondent: Ipswich Limited

Full retention of existing car parks including temporary (pending suitable change of use).

Comment

Representation ID: 25421

Received: 30/12/2017

Respondent: Ipswich Limited

The Primary, Secondary and Specialist retail frontage designation doesn't work for Ipswich.

The areas marked in the last local plan as Speciality should be Secondary, all Secondary areas should also be Primary with the exception of St Matthews Street.

Comment

Representation ID: 25422

Received: 30/12/2017

Respondent: Ipswich Limited

Considering the borough has wrecked the top-end of Westgate Street (along with Carr Street) for its vision of making the town north to south (i.e. Cornhill to Waterfront), reduced the capacity of Crown Car Park and is planning on reducing car parking in the immediate area to this site, and has overcapacity Handford Road in close proximity, the infrastructure doesn't support such development on the Westgate site. I am sure this will become flats or just remain a car park.

Comment

Representation ID: 25423

Received: 30/12/2017

Respondent: Ipswich Limited

Before we can answer this question we must find out who can deliver marketing activities to better increase tourists and day visitors into the town.
Proposed Tourist Attractions
1. County Hall should be utilised as a Museum
2. Old Post Office is an ideal place for an Art Gallery
3. Ancient House should be utilised as a Museum
4. A tourist attraction needs to exist at the Ipswich Waterfront
Increasing the selection makes it impossible for the visitor to complete all the museums on a single day, so visitors would need to stay overnight/revisit.
"The Link" route from Tower Street to Waterfront should be revisited as an tourist/heritage trail.
Pigs Gone Wild art trail and children-focused events such as Paw Patrol attracted large numbers of people into the town. The latter category are easily organised and
Ipswich should utilise more of these events, i.e. once per week in the summer.

Comment

Representation ID: 25424

Received: 30/12/2017

Respondent: Ipswich Limited

The tall buildings didn't really take off. Tall buildings do not suit Ipswich. Whether we are talking office blocks or residential, there has always been a struggle for occupancy in the town.

Comment

Representation ID: 25425

Received: 30/12/2017

Respondent: Ipswich Limited

By utilising its heritage assets for tourism, sharing our great town with visitors and tourists, rather than modern half-baked regeneration projects to launch a university and to market overpriced flats.
A new permanent place needs to be found for the Ipswich Market. The Ipswich Market should be an annex of The Saints - and it would be well situated in Cromwell Square. It is the perfect location along the streets of independents on the way to the waterfront with an iconic landmark as a backdrop. Having a stand alone location allows the possibility of a full-time market.
Ipswich Borough Council needs to take back control over Ipswich Museums.

Comment

Representation ID: 25426

Received: 30/12/2017

Respondent: Ipswich Limited

Despite all the focus, there still isn't an tourist attraction at the Waterfront. There is no visitor centre. There isn't an ATM. Some nice restaurants, cafes and a pub - nothing the town centre hasn't got! Nothing most other settlements do not have including cities, towns and some villages.

Comment

Representation ID: 25427

Received: 30/12/2017

Respondent: Ipswich Limited

There isn't enough open space in the borough and this is a direct consequence of boundary constraints which are not fit for the 20th century (not a typo!) and must be expanded.

Comment

Representation ID: 25428

Received: 30/12/2017

Respondent: Ipswich Limited

Ipswich has inadequate sport and leisure facilities outside of educational establishments.

Comment

Representation ID: 25429

Received: 30/12/2017

Respondent: Ipswich Limited

We should encourage - through collaboration with the neighbouring district council for retirement housing and care homes to be concentrated in Felixstowe and the Suffolk Coast.
We should encourage (not force) a better environment absent of the hazardous pollution associated with Ipswich, which should extend their life through better health and well-being of the ageing population.
This would unlock existing housing stock, avoiding the need to build so many new poor quality developments, and best of all should reduce the demand for burial plots in the town each year.