The Ipswich Conservation and Design Panel is a service panel of the Council which meets monthly to consider heritage and built design issues within the Borough, and offer comments to Planning Officers regarding development proposals.

Organisations currently represented on the panel include:

• The Chartered Institute of Building;
• Ipswich Archaeological Trust;
• Councillors from Ipswich Borough Council;
• Ipswich Building Preservation Trust;
• Ipswich Heritage Forum;
• The Ipswich Society;
• The Ipswich & Suffolk Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Shipping;
• The Landscape Institute;
• RIBA Suffolk;
• The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors;
• Suffolk County Council;
• The University of Suffolk - School of Engineering, Arts, Science and Technology (EAST).

The Panel has been meeting regularly since 1975. Its remit has expanded beyond conservation issues to include all aspects of the built environment; for example public realm works and urban design.