Lady Ramsey, widow of former Ipswich and England manager Sir Alf, has backed Town's £1 million investment in improvements on the area surrounding Sir Alf's statue.

The area where the statue is sited has a notorious reputation and when it was decided to place the statue on the then Portman's Walk-Portman Road corner eyebrows were raised.

The club plan to add improved street lighting and CCTV cameras as well as landscaping of the whole area.

Lady Ramsey said: "It is only right that this area is to be improved. It currently doesn't compliment Sir Alfred's statue or the future home of the statue of Bobby Robson."

She continued adding praise to the "substantial investment in making this area one that all residents of Ipswich can be proud of."

The whole area is to see a large number of changes with paved areas, the Millennium Walkway, the planting of trees as well as a section of pavement which will bear the handprints of many of Town's captains.

Some of these developments were conditions upon which permission was given for the new North Stand.

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