Please support our Campaign by writing to or emailing IBC.
Request that IBC exercise their statutory duties (for this important historical and biodiverse site);
to seek professional expert review of the survey information, & independent verification of the
landowner's tree survey recommendations
remind that important and Protected Species who live on the site have been formally reported and Natural England’s advice should be secured
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/23514390.ashcroft-road-ipswich-hit-flash-flood-storm/
" Hilary Bond, who was at her friend's house at the time of the flooding, said: "It happens everytime there is a heavy downpour.
"The manhole cover lifts at the bottom of Larchcroft Road and the sewage empties into the road and into the lowest houses."
"It's been happening for years, he gets told its fixed but then it happens again.
"The fish in his pond end up being swept away and he's left with raw sewage in front and back gardens."
Suffolk Highways said it attended the road and found Anglian Water sewer covers had lifted as a result of heavy rainfall.
On March 8th, Ipswich Borough Council Planning Committee voted in interim guidance on 'Biodiversity Net Gain' (BNG) requirements, which were outlined in law within the 2021 Environment Act.
page 159, Item 6-
COMMITTEE: PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT REF NO: PD/22/14
This 'BNG' consideration is hugely important to 'greenfield sites such as the Red House Park Application which has proven and recorded protected species - as Great Crested Newts- SOCS registered them in 2015 with the Suffolk Biological Records office following a resident's survey.
New surveys and work will be required, as outlined in the above BNG guidance document, for all current and future determinations!
The Ipswich Borough Area Committees, Planning & Development Department, local MP Tom Hunt, stakeholders Suffolk Wildlife Trust, 'Place' Biodiversity Consultancy, Natural England and the Environment Agency have been approached and petitioned by SOCS on this.These photos were taken in November 2022 by a licensed rescuer of some 20 Newts at risk, along the Westerfield Watercouse & tributary of the Gipping which flows alongside and within these important Ipswich Garden Suburb site. If you live in IP4 bordering the area, please look out and report all sitings of protected species.
