Vision
We refuse to accept the current view that prosperity for Ipswich requires the price of illness, death and of an increasing vulnerability to disease and pandemics.
Now, more than ever, we can’t go back. We CAN transform our town
Our Vision is for: -
Ipswich to become a healthy, people-centred, thriving, and prosperous low pollution town where people feel safe to walk and cycle and our children can flourish. Where the way we live and work brings benefits to health and wellbeing, boosting the local economy, whilst curbing climate change and reducing health inequalities.
Ipswich to build on the learning from Covid which showed us the value of community, while technology supports the possibility of a better work/home balance.
Ipswich town centre to be a place where you can live without a car, safely and enjoyably, with plenty of green spaces.
A town that embraces the vast changes we are seeing on our high/shopping streets and works towards a solution that keeps the town vibrant, including local independent local businesses which create jobs for local people,
Lots of in-town housing at costs which can be afforded by local people who wish to work locally or have viable train or bus travel options.
the town with all necessary shops and services reached by walking or cycling or by public transport.
A place where you can get home cheaply and easily by public transport, without fear of having to catch a taxi because the last bus has gone or never arrived, whether that was after shopping at 5 pm or after an evening out.
A town that visitors want to see and experience but recognise that to keep it as its townspeople want it to be, they will have to park their cars and travel into the centre by public transport or hired cycles.
A town which welcomes commuters who travel by train, bus, cycle, etc, or low emission cars.
An Ipswich people love to live in, are proud of and want to tell people about.