The Council undertakes surveys each year to monitor the types of uses and number of vacant units within the Central Shopping Area and the District and Local Centres. This relates to policies DM20 and DM21 of the superseded 2017 Local Plan, which was the plan in force for most of the latest monitoring period, 2021-22. 

• 2022 Central Shopping Area Identified Frontage Survey Report Final
• 2022 District and Local Centre Identified Frontages Survey Report Final

The new Ipswich Local Plan was adopted in March 2022 and will provide the basis for the retail surveys for 2022-2023. In the interim, the document below, Central Shopping Area Retail Units by Zone 2023, supports the implementation of Policy DM27 of the Ipswich Local Plan Review 2018-2036.

• Central Shopping Area Retail Units by Zone Jan 2023
• 2022 Retail Survey - Transitional Central Shopping Area Spreadsheet Instructions
• 2019 CSA Final Version - Central Shopping Area – Identified Frontages Survey Report November 2019
• District and Local Centre Identified Frontages Survey Report December 2019
• 2018 CSA Final Version Central Shopping Area – Central Shopping Area – Identified Frontages Survey Report October 2018
• District and Local Centres Identified Frontages Survey Report December 2018
• District and Local Centres Identified Frontages Survey Report October 2017 
• Central Shopping Area - Identified Frontages Survey Report October 2017
• Retail Park Survey 2015
• Central Shopping Area - Identified Frontages October 2015
• District and Local Centres October 2015
• Central Shopping Area - Identified Frontages 2014
• District and Local Centres December 2014
• Retail Park Survey 2014
• Central Shopping Area Identified Frontages Appendix 4 2013
• Map 1 - Identified Frontages
• Map 2 - Identified Frontages
• Map 3 - Identified Frontages
• District and Local Shopping Centres 2013
• District and Local Shopping Centres location map