Report shows how and why Felixstowe needs improving
The report ‘A Local
Strategy for the Felixstowe Peninsula’ was published
in April 2006 and sets out a vision to guide regeneration
and future development in the Felixstowe area. The project was
funded by the East of England Development Agency, English
Partnerships, Felixstowe Town Council, the Haven Gateway
Partnership and Suffolk Coastal District Council. The report
was produced by David Lock Associates.
Throughout the production process, the consultants maintained a
dialogue of community involvement through exhibitions,
questionnaires, meetings, and other focus groups.
The report is an independent set of recommendations and is not
itself a finalised development plan for the Felixstowe area. We
hope that it will stimulate investment and linked policies in a
variety of spheres, in both the public and private sectors. It will
inform, and be a significant input to, the
Suffolk Coastal Local Development Framework,
which will be subject to full and formal public consultation.
The report addresses a number of the key issues facing the
Felixstowe area, including housing, employment, leisure, the town
centre, and community development. It states that action must be
taken to ‘prevent some worrying trends without intervention
threaten many simple aspects of life that the existing population
currently take for granted.’
The consultants, David Lock Associates, gave a special preview
presentation to many of the local organisations who had been
consulted during the production of their report. A copy of the
presentation, which is a helpful introduction to the full report,
can be viewed by following the link below:
David Lock Associates' presentation (new window
PDF 1.86MB) - presented at the Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe
on Wednesday, 29 March 2006.
You will find more background information about the report in
the press release (new window PDF
40KB) issued by David Lock Associates on 6 April
2006.
You can
download the full report and we have
also broken the report down into smaller sections to enable
you to quickly find the parts that interest you.
The partnership behind the commissioning of the report
issued a press release to coincide with the
final publication.
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