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Ipswich Borough Council has the legal powers to force owners to clean up neglected buildings in our town, but it hasn't used them on a single commercial property in at least five years. Ipswich.co.uk asks why.
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Data obtained by Ipswich.co.uk reveals that fewer than 20 littering fines have been issued in Ipswich in any of the past six years. The council insists it has not stopped enforcing, but its own evidence suggests it never started.
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Data obtained by Ipswich.co.uk shows that less than a quarter of unpaid parking fines in Ipswich are ever recovered. As the number of fines issued keeps rising, the average money collected per fine keeps declining – but the council insists its enforcement is effective.
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Volunteers picked more than 30 bags of rubbish from Ipswich town centre on Monday 21 September, as Ipswich Central's Big Clean week got under way.
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Ipswich Borough Council has cancelled plans to pressure wash the pedestrianised town centre during next week's Big Clean, citing a hosepipe ban that Anglian Water confirms does not apply to it.
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Businesses, residents, the council and police will spend five days scrubbing, sweeping, pressure washing and fining their way across Ipswich town centre from Monday. Ipswich Central, the town's BID, says the campaign is about pride, not blame – but the real test is what happens next.
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Weeks after Ipswich.co.uk highlighted bin bags piling up outside town centre shops, the council says enforcement action has cut the number left out on the street each week from 84 to 29.
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Ipswich Borough Council has offered a different explanation for why street cleaning on Upper Brook Street paused for two days – dropping its earlier reference to the hosepipe ban in favour of "operational reasons," despite initially saying the ban was behind the stop.
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The clean-up we reported on Upper Brook Street this morning generated much excitement before grinding to a halt after just a short stretch. The council has confirmed the hosepipe ban is behind the sudden stop.
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Ipswich Borough Council workers have been spotted pressure washing Upper Brook Street, days after Ipswich.co.uk launched a campaign demanding lasting change to the state of the town's streets.
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Illegally parked cars, litter, seed husks, bird mess, unexplainable stains, bins left out all day, street drinking – none of these alone is Ipswich's biggest problem. Collectively, encountered every day – by every visitor on nearly every street in the town centre – they have become just that.
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