Please note: This consultation is now closed
Local List 2025 – Invitation for Nominations.
The Council conducted a six week public consultation on possible additions and amendments to, and removals from the Local List (Buildings of Townscape Interest) SPD, between 23 January 2025 and 6 March 2025.
A Selection Guide for Nominations
The public can nominate any building they consider appropriate for inclusion in the Local List. When the consultation period has closed the Council will invite a panel of experts, including local amenity society representatives, to draw up a shortlist of recommendations for inclusion in the draft Local List 2025.
The Panel will use the following criteria to assess nominations (not an exhaustive list):
• Is the building the work of a particular architect of regional or local note?
• Does the building have landmark quality, or contribute to the character of its setting?
• Does it contribute to the character or appearance of an area?
• Does it provide a good example of a particular type of building, which is locally rare?
• Has it significant historic associations with local people or past events?
• Does it provide evidence of the gradual development of the settlement in which it stands?
• If within a landscape such as a park or garden, is it of identifiable importance to the historic design?
• Has it received an award in recognition of the quality of its design or other significance?
Historic England produce a guide to the creation of Local Lists, which the Council are using as best practice guidance. Read the document.
Inspection of documents
The following documents are available for public inspection:
- The currently adopted Local List (Buildings of Townscape Interest) SPD 2021;
- Notice of Consultation (23 January 2025); and
- Designation Criteria and Nomination Form (word/PDF).
How to comment
Please submit your comments to the Council in one of the following ways, to be received by 11.45pm on 6 March 2025:
- By email to planningpolicy@ipswich.gov.uk; or
- In writing to the Planning Policy, Ipswich Borough Council, Grafton House, 15-17 Russell Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 2DE; or
- By using the nomination form provided on the web page [LINK] which may be returned by mail or email.
It will be helpful if nominations include the following information:
- Location details: e.g. address, OS grid references;
- Description of the reason for the nomination, for instance a reference to local significance, special design features or local associations with owners or architects; and
- Photographs (s), taken from the public realm only and with respect for the privacy of owners, showing the building’s main features visible from the street.
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