Advice and guidance, booklets and leaflets, transactions and media releases. A description of the services offered.

Culture & Environment

• Public events 
• Museums and galleries 
• Regent Theatre 
• Town Hall and Corn Exchange (visitor information and venue hire) 
• Parks and play areas 
• Borough Landscapes contracting service
• Allotments 
• Ipswich Market 
• Sports facilities 
• Swimming pools 
• Burials, cremations and Public Health Act funerals 
• Household waste collections and disposal 
• Recycling 
• Wastesaver commercial waste and recycling service 
• Street cleaning

 Development

• Planning permission and information on planning applications 
• Planning policy information 
• Building control and information on building regulations
• Building control licences and permits
• Information and advice on the conservation of historical buildings and natural environments 
• Local Land Charges property information searches 
• Online mapping service 
• Street naming and numbering
• Information on past and current planning applications
• Bus shelters and information on public transport 
• Information on business centres and industrial estates 
• Leasing council-owned commercial properties 
  
  

Housing and Community Services

• Emergency planning and Emergency Control Centre 
• Addressing anti-social behaviour problems
• HEARS (Home Emergency Alarm Response Service) 
• Community safety projects and initiatives
• Ipswich Shopmobility service 
• CCTV 
• Food Safety 
• Pest control services 
• Monitoring and controlling air, noise and land pollution 
• Dog warden service 
• Registration and inspection of tattooing and other skin piercing activities 
• Enforcing occupational health and safety
• Licensing hackney carriages and private hire vehicles
• Alcohol and entertainment licensing
• Industrial licences and permits
• Animal licences 
• Sitting Out Area Consents (pavement cafés)
• Street Trading Consents 
• Charitable street collection permissions
• Pleasure boat licensing
• Enforcing statutory housing standards in private sector housing
• Licensing Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs)
• Licensing mobile home, park home and caravan sites
• Administrating disabled facilities grants
• Administrating private sector renewal grants
• Returning empty homes to use 
• Social housing 
• Addressing homelessness issues 
• Sheltered housing schemes 

 Finance and Revenues

• Housing benefit and council tax support
• Council tax collection
• Business rates collection and rate relief administration 
• Fraud investigation 

People and Governance

• Information on Council committees 
• Submitting a petition to the Council 
• Current job vacancies at the Council 
• Area Committee meetings and funding grants
• Community Cash Grants  
• Providing support to the Mayor of Ipswich 

 Media Releases

• The Angle 
• Online news 
• Tenants’ Times 
• Facebook account 
• Twitter account
• Ipswich Area Committees Facebook account 
• Area Committees Twitter account
• Ipswich Direct email mailing list 

 Election information

• Elections and electoral registration 
• Information on becoming a councillor
• Election expenses – please contact elections@ipswich.gov.uk

More information about the publication scheme:

• Who we are and what we do
• What we spend and how we spend it
• What our priorities are and how we are doing
• How we make decisions
• Our policies and procedures
• Lists and registers