The opposition leader at Ipswich council has urged the authority to accept it is impossible to make long-term plans because of Covid-19 and to concentrate on immediate financial issues.
It could be another year before shows return to the Ipswich Regent after the coronavirus pandemic – and Ipswich Council has seen its financial cushion wiped out by the effects of the last eight months, a new report reveals.
Councils from across Suffolk are to get more than £6m from the government’s latest tranche of funding to help them deal with the Covid pandemic – but one leader has called for a change in the way funds are distributed.
For months now Ipswich’s Old Post Office has been wrapped up like a huge Christmas present while contractors have been restoring the building – but over the next few weeks the scaffolding and plastic sheeting should start to come off.
Ipswich Council is hoping to buy the freehold of the Debenhams store on the town’s Cornhill – and has received a £1m government grant to help with the purchase.
Council staff are being asked to continue working from home despite some wanting to return to their desks in Grafton House and Gipping House in Ipswich town centre, according to Conservative opposition leader Ian Fisher.
More than two and a half years after work started to rebuild the Cornhill in the centre of Ipswich, work is finally complete after the safety measures were finally finished on Wednesday morning.
Ipswich council is starting to reopen some of its sports and leisure facilities – and regular uses could not be happier to be back on the gym equipment and in the aerobics class at Whitton Sports Centre.
The Ravenswood Residents’ Association has accused Ipswich council of trying to stifle debate about proposals to build scores of new affordable homes on the development by unveiling the plans and holding a consultation during August.
The Ravenswood Residents’ Association has accused Ipswich council of trying to stifle debate about proposals to build scores of new affordable homes on the development by unveiling the plans and holding a consultation during August.
With the government promising capital investment to boost town centres as the country emerges from lockdown, a wish-list of projects needing millions of pounds for improvements is being drawn up.
Ipswich’s Christchurch Mansion and High Street Museum are to open to the public for the first time since the coronavirus lockdown began in March from next week.
Councils across the country could face bankruptcy unless the government comes up with more support over the next months, according to Ipswich borough leader David Ellesmere.
Ipswich council is opening some of its outdoor sports facilities in parks today following the announcement that some more activity is now permitted by the government.
