Fast Broadband

achieving 100% high-speed broadband coverage

Keeping Costs Down

preserving quality of service at lower cost

Defending Coast and Estuary

protecting town and country from flooding

Affordable Housing

championing affordable homes for needy people

Working With Communities

enabling communities to enrich their lives

No To AV Campaign

put an end to this unfair Lib Dems scheme

Attracting Investment

Over the past four years we have attracted more than £26 million of external investment for projects throughout the district.

Over £20 million of this has been for coastal defence works in Felixstowe, at Bawdsey and at Thorpeness with funds won mainly from the Environment Agency but with significant private contributions in the case of the latter two.

We have also used that money to finance projects that will directly benefit the local economy. These include :-

new station car parks at Melton and Campsea Ashe
town centre improvements in Woodbridge, complementing funds already available to the town as a result of planning gain contributions we secured from the Tesco development
contributions to the Woodbridge Tide Mill, the Leiston Long Shop Museum and Felixstowe Seafront Gardens to support their bids for lottery funding
an Economic Development Support Fund to fund business-related projects in the population centres of Aldeburgh, Framlingham, Kesgrave, Rushmere St Andrew, Leiston, Saxmundham and Wickham Market. Launched in the depths of the recession, the scheme has played a valuable role in stimulating local economic activity without any subsidy to individual businesses. The remaining funds are now to be made available across the entire district
a business energy advice service that has helped over 80 SMEs to reduce their energy and transport costs
the very successful 'Suffolk Coast Futures' project to develop new ways of managing coastal areas in a fully integrated way. This has achieved national recognition as the way forward as a completely new approach. The Alde and Ores Futures pilot project, with its very close relationship with the Environment Agency and all the local communities and interests involved has graphically illustrated how effective this approach can be in resolving the many difficulties, and sometimes conflicts, that arise in managing and protecting our rural coast and estuaries.

The bids supported by LABGI funding already submitted to the Lottery fund, are hoped to bring in a further £4m plus, and there other bids in the pipeline at earlier stages potentially for a similar amount.

The only cost to the local taxpayer of all these projects has been some of the time of our staff and in a number of instances we have been able to offset that partly from the external funding we have succeeded in attracting.

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