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I've always held the town of Ipswich up as a relatively wealthy town with good employment opportunities, so was shocked to see it feature in ITV news as an area that can be described as deprived.
Is that Ipswich Borough Council's fault? Or Suffolk County for messing with the road system?
How on earth can diddly little BSE be a better shopping town?
Used to want to move back to Ipswich to bring my kids up in a safer environment with good job opportunities, spurned chance to move to Clacton due to perceived lack of jobs. They're now 18 & 19 and don't like travelling outside of London, let alone live anywhere else.
Ipswich has always been a relatively poor town in terms of the affluence of its residents. Has more well of bits, but a high % of less well off including several large estates.
I was born underwater, I dried out in the sun.
I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young.
And how far will £25M go. Of course it is better than nothing but it isn't going to pay for anything especially major. What the town really needs is an identity and to attract business and custom. It is very sad to see how it has gradually stagnated - very much like the football club. Let's hope new investment can galvanise the football club and galvanise the town too.
IBC is utterly useless and has been for as long as I can remember. There is no vision for the town whatsoever and everything is just allowed to drift.
SCC on the other hand are only interested in ‘greater Suffolk’ and show no interest in Ipswich at all. They do what they have to do as far as the town is concerned and that’s it.
Between them it’s a shambles!
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Ipswich council to get £25m to regenerate the town centre on 19:06 - Mar 3 with 860 views
Ipswich council to get £25m to regenerate the town centre on 19:04 - Mar 3 by Dubtractor
Where i live is one of the nice parts. Def info.
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Not what your neighbours say...
Loud music all the time, drains permanently clogged with beard hair, the off-putting sight of a certain resident harvesting his carrots in nowt but wellies and a smile...
Pronouns: He/Him/His.
"Imagine being a heterosexual white male in Britain at this moment. How bad is that. Everything you say is racist, everything you say is homophobic. The Woke community have really f****d this country."
Couldn't possibly be anything to do with Ipswich being a marginal seat. Was reading an article recently about some apparently well off areas have qualified for a regeneration grant including Cheadle,.but not nearby Stockport.
Fkn A! We can have another load of shyte 'sculptures' up and down half a dozen times on the Cornhill. I have great faith that the Council will be able to make the money disappear efficiently.
Ipswich council to get £25m to regenerate the town centre on 19:12 - Mar 3 by Pinewoodblue
Couldn't possibly be anything to do with Ipswich being a marginal seat. Was reading an article recently about some apparently well off areas have qualified for a regeneration grant including Cheadle,.but not nearby Stockport.
Has it always been marginal, or is it that way since Whitton and Whitehouse were deemed to be 'Central Suffolk'?
Genuine question - I don't know the answer.
In theory being a marginal seat should be to our benefit for the reasons you imply, but I'm not sure we really see the benefits of it just yet!
I was born underwater, I dried out in the sun.
I started humping volcanoes baby, when I was too young.
Ipswich council to get £25m to regenerate the town centre on 19:00 - Mar 3 by Dubtractor
Ipswich has always been a relatively poor town in terms of the affluence of its residents. Has more well of bits, but a high % of less well off including several large estates.
Relatively speaking I'd always assumed Ipswich to be a Town with a high level of employment, so relatively affluent in that it wasn't a benefits dominated town.
The estates do not have the oppressive nature of some in Manchester where I once worked Beswick and Ancoats pre-commonwealth (now Etihad) stadium, Gorton, Abbey Hay, Rusholme, Hulme and Moss Side.
Neither was there a feel like can be found in many Inner London areas such as Ethelred Estate SE1, North Kensington etc.
Even the estate I live on has a rep for gang violence.
The town centre of Ipswich used to have good footfall during the day because of the likes of GRE, Royal Sun Alliance and Willis then weekend's with folks coming in from the smaller towns plus for football.
As Another poster has stated the town has decayed with The Town.
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