Greener Ipswich Project, Suffolk

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“To redevelop, regenerate, re-imagine and reconnect the central area with the marina and so create “East Anglia’s Waterfront Town Centre.” It has embraced change by remodelling a town centre ... “around linkages between the park, the railway station, the marina, and the commercial heart. The ambition is for a more compact, usable, liveable, vibrant and differentiated town centre for everyone, a place that is proud of its maritime history, celebrates its exceptional leisure and cultural offer, is open to innovative ideas and technologies, and which, through a people-centric approach, constantly stimulates new and exciting social experiences...” - Ipswich Towns Fund Vision​​

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The Greener Ipswich project is one of a number of projects in Ipswich supported by the central government Towns Fund and has been developed to further the aims of the Ipswich Town investment Plan including;

 

• Reduced carbon emissions via modal shift to walking and cycling, and schemes to green the town

• New areas being opened up for development around the Waterfront

• Increased visitor spend and dwell time

• Improved community infrastructure

• Vacant and under-utilised sites and buildings being refurbished and re-used

• Hundreds of jobs

• Improved public realm & creation of new public spaces

• Improved vitality in the town centre

• Improved skills levels and wages

• Increased digital connectivity​​

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Make Space were appointed to develop design proposals from inception through to completion to create connecting green streets linking Ipswich town centre through to it's historic waterfront & marina.

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