Plans for 60 town centre flats approved
Alice Cunningham/BBCPlans for 60 flats in a town centre have been approved.
Ipswich Borough Council backed the plans for the first and second floors above the Ipswich Bazaar Superstore in Carr Street on Wednesday.
The floors are currently vacant retail space and the developer wanted to create an extension to form a main entrance to the flats via Cox Lane as well as a roof extension.
No authorities submitted objections to the plans and planning officers previously recommended they should be approved.
The space above the Ipswich Bazaar Superstore has been vacant since the closure of the former Woolworths in 2008.
The plans state there will be 32 one-bedroom flats, 25 two-bedroom flats and three flats with three bedrooms.
There will also be a shared amenity space, cycle parking for 136 bikes, and refuse stores.
The developer added that each flat would have "their own private amenity space in the form of a terrace, inset balcony or a roof garden".
Alice Cunningham/BBCIn consultation, Suffolk Police said it did not object to the plans on the basis that the applicant deterred unauthorised entry from the ground flood as well as implementing CCTV that was capable of being monitored.
As well as this, Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board did not object, but said the application would need to pay £34,550 to mitigate the impacts the proposal would have on healthcare provisions in the area.
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