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Ipswich residents and businesses are being asked to share their ideas for the future of Waterloo House, the former Debenhams building, after Ipswich Borough Council completed its purchase of the long-vacant site.
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Ipswich Borough Council announced a start date for its long-delayed Lloyds Avenue redevelopment on the same day it confirmed it had purchased and would demolish the former Debenhams building. We ask: should the two schemes share one masterplan, rather than proceed separately?
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Ipswich.co.uk can exclusively reveal that Ipswich Borough Council has acquired the former Debenhams building for £4m and plans to demolish it after the current owner, Unex, stripped it bare and allowed it to become a "blight" on our high street for half a decade.
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Ipswich Borough Council first proposed redeveloping Lloyds Avenue in December 2020. Nearly six years on, and five years after securing funding, it still cannot say when work will begin.
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Ipswich Borough Council approved £1.284m in regeneration grants yesterday, but we can exclusively reveal that the decision for one application, believed to be around £750k, faces an imminent challenge, with opposition councillors expected to call it in over concerns about the use of public funds.
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Hawthorn Drive Shopping Parade is set to benefit from government regeneration funding as Ipswich Borough Council continues to deploy its allocation under a revamped and more flexible funding scheme.
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Ipswich Borough Council has confirmed that works to replace railings, upgrade lighting and replant green spaces along St Matthews Street and Civic Drive will begin in April.
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A planning application has been submitted to transform the unused first floor of the former Grimwades building on Ipswich's Cornhill into an adult education suite, with the first students expected this September.
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Work on Ipswich's stripped-back Town Centre Greening project has reached Queen Street, with the council confirming that works are now underway on the latest stretch of the scheme.
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Global fashion jewellery brand Lovisa has opened in the former Grimwades building on the Cornhill, becoming the second ground-floor tenant in the landmark property that sat empty for over a decade before the council acquired the building using Towns Fund money.
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Work has started on Ipswich Borough Council's Town Centre Greening project, which will introduce trees and planting across four streets between the town centre and waterfront.
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Ipswich Borough Council's decision to award a £560,000 town centre regeneration grant to turn the first floor of the Grimwades building into an adult learning centre has been criticised as a "deal done behind closed doors" that denied other potential uses from being considered.
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