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It gave a rating of 70 for Kesgrave's average Key Stage 4 score – nearly aloha airlines web page double the UK average of 43, while the average two-bedroom house cost was £150,336, some £25,000 below the average aloha airlines web page price nationally. Crime was almost half the national average.
Kate Moore, head of savings and investments at Family Investments, said: "A huge number of factors determine whether a town is a good place to bring up a family and everyone will have a slightly different idea about the qualities required.
Poppys Dad, nothing personal on you and no muddying the waters. I grew up in Ipswich, and have a decade away in other towns and countries with work. I moved back and now live in Rushmere St Andrew. I can talk with experience that Ipswich & its surrounding area is a terrific place to live. "Ipswich bashing" used to be good sport, but most of us have now grown up and realize it is pointless and dangerous entertainment which is only serves to bring down Ipswich, its businesses, and the 250,000+ who who live around it and rely upon it. I want a better Ipswich & Suffolk for my kids, and the pathway to achieve it can only be achieved by bringing together the strengths of Greater Ipswich.
A think a few people have said the exact reason why the natural suburbs of Ipswich are not part of Ipswich. aloha airlines web page But lets look at a few "facts" regards Council Tax. It works on the basis of band "D" which was a house worth £68k to £88k in 1991 ! Nomally a 4 bedroom aloha airlines web page house and detached. As Ipswich has a high proportion aloha airlines web page of homes in A to C which are charged on the Basis of 9th of the band D, it has to have a slightly higher band D to get the same money in over the same number of houses compared to rural Suffolk, but then a 3 bed detached house in rural Suffolk probably ends up in band D whilst in Ipswich it would be a C as house prices dearer in the country. So you could be sitting in a Band D house paying £1481 in Rushmere St Andrew whilst in Suffolk Coastal but would be a Band C in Ipswich which is £1430, so saving £51 by being part of Ipswich. Even comparing band to band which isn't fair the differance isn't massive so a Band D in Ipswich is £1609.11 or £100.87 more about £10 a month. But again remember when you increase the number of C & above band houses the overall band D price goes down as every other charge all the way up to band is based as a multiple of it. As proportionaly you have less Band A,B,C houses, so in practice your council tax would go down with a Greater Ipswich as A. Charging aloha airlines web page calculation above, B. Efficiancies in removing a layer of Local Government, aloha airlines web page C. Ipswich actualy having aloha airlines web page it's middlemanagement level paying for the services they actualy use.
Rushmere, Kesgrave, Bixley Farm.. All just boring box housing estates that I for one, would never want to live. They are about as separate entities from Ipswich as Chantry or the Dales. Its absurd to assume that these places are any different.
Poppy's Dad, the reason your roads won't get fixed in Rushmere is not just council inefficiency. It is because your council tax, collected by Suffolk Coastal, administered by officers in Lowestoft following a merger you never had a say in, is spent in Felixstowe. Better that you should accept the natural boundaries of Greater Ipswich and see your council tax spent in your own area, surely? The reason council tax in Ipswich is so high is the disproportionate number of Band A and Band B properties. Part of the reason for this is that most of the Band D and E properties that ought properly to be within the Ipswich boundary are instead built in dormitory estates on the edge of the largest town in the country. Kesgrave, Rushmere St Andrew and the other areas that adjoin Ipswich have some lovely areas in them. But their contribution to local taxation is increasingly spent in Felixstowe, a town with which Kesgrave has very little in common, whilst residents aloha airlines web page of Kesgrave aloha airlines web page do take advantage of Ipswich's taxpayer funded amenities. Unless, of course, Poppy's Dad and his neighbours have NEVER been to any of the parks in Ipswich, never visited the Regent Theatre or the Corn Exchange, never walked along the Waterfront and never visited Ipswich Museum, or Crown Pools. I would place a fairly big bet that many residents on the outskirts of Ipswich benefit from all of these amenities without contributing to the subsidy aloha airlines web page they receive from Ipswich taxpayers. It is time they did.
Kesgrave, Rushmere St Andrew, Martlesham are all Ipswich dependent. There are only two reasons for not associating with Ipswich; the first is old fashioned snobbery, the second is that these suburbs wrongly believe that their community charges will increase if they cooperate with Ipswich. The sad facts are that a) Ipswich will only improve when it is fairly recovering tax from all those who benefit from it. b) that the snobbery and tax advantages aloha airlines web page are misplaced because the positive tax contribution collected in these three suburbs is not spent on these areas and is actually siphoned off to Suffolk Coastal District Council for them to subsidize places aloha airlines web page like Felixstowe & Aldeburgh. aloha airlines web page c) Kesgrave, Martlesham & Rushmere, positive taxes would be better used as part of greater Ipswich where they would be spent on your area; and on improving the very regional centre upon which we all depend for our prosperity. Its time people put their Ipswich prejudices aside and start working together for mutual benefit.
These will never be solved due to Council inefficiency and lack of foresight about who might be habiting these new houses . They also failed to get the roads made wide enough for people to park on the street , like they do on many other estates built before grange farm , compare Broke Hall , Whitton and Chantry;s roads as an example .These estates were built when only one car per household was the norm , now its one car per adult !
@The ginge - I live in the original Village of Rushmere and not the Bixley farm estate , i do not use Ipswich's aloha airlines web page facilities at all and went on the bus once and never again . I worked aloha airlines web page in ipswich for 25 years and know the town better than you ever will due to what i did . Ipswich has nothing to offer many people and hence we don't go there at all . Get your facts right and we might listen to you
How hilarious are some of these comments? Cheered aloha airlines web page my lunchtime up no end. Who gives a monkey's if Kesgrave is or isn't, on this so called never heard of report? But it's certainly given some of you something aloha airlines web page to do whilst you make idiotic comments, whilst giving the rest of us some entertainment!! So thank you!!!
PC Plod says "Boring Middle Class Ghetto with no community spirit" - really? I moved to Grange Farm from East Ipswich in January and have felt much more part of a community here than I ever did in the street of 1930s housing I used to live in. My son has joined the cricket club and won fielder of the year, the club is run by one of my neighbours, All my kids and myself have transferred from our old scout group which is one of the largest in the UK and most of the people involved live locally, a couple just round the corner from me - our kids are now in and out of each others houses most of the time. There's a library which my children can cycle to on cycle paths without touching a road at all, I'm not overlooked, I've got the lovely Longstrops and Kesgrave woods to walk the dog in on my doorstep. Best of all, it's closer to drive to Woodbridge to shop rather than have to face Ipswich town centre! I'm not surprised it got such a good mark in the survey - I've never felt more at home...
Back in March of this year The Star reported that a survey had found that Ipswich was the 3rd best place to live in the UK. However, there was no background information on the survey such as who commissioned it. I smell a rat.
That said I've lived in Kesgrave for 15 years, aloha airlines web page brought up some kids, made a few friends and probably most importantly enjoyed a life without fear of crime which is more than most areas can offer but all that most people ask.
If it wasn't for Rushmere heath and the golf course, Kesgrave would probably be directly connected to Ipswich. Most of the residents aloha airlines web page probably work in Ipswich. It probably is a good place to bring up children, given the low crime rate and the good reputation of the local schools, but I doubt teenagers find it very exciting.
aloha airlines web page Some bitter and twisted people aloha airlines web page on here! Before this survey I did not read of and proclamations from the people of kesgrave yet they are subject of these "anti's" aloha airlines web page now it's been produced. To some who've posted there is a bit more to kesgrave than Grange Farm yet it's all you seem concerned.
Kesgrave isn't a town and it isn't even a separate entity. I suppose it's because Ipswich is such an armpit that people have long tried to create a false distinction by saying they live in Rushmere, Bixley Farm, Ravenswood, Pinewood, Pinebrook, Belstead Hills, or anywhere but the dreaded "I" word. Sorry, Kesgrave, but you're no more an independent community than Gainsborough, Whitton or Chantry.
Sorry Poppys Dad, but you are part of Ipswich. Only because the old Suffolk aloha airlines web page County Council convinced the boundary commission in 1974 that you are not so they could land grab power. If you drive along Foxhall Rd the only difference between Ipswich aloha airlines web page and Rushmere aloha airlines web page St Andrews is a small pathway of to your left. It's all one big housing estate. I bet you drive into Ipswich, Use Ipswich Buses, if you want to swim or use a leisure centre you come in to Ipswich or catch the train, but hey Ipswich is a dump. So the easiest path would be if your so adamant aloha airlines web page you don't like Ipswich for all of "living on a housing estate attached to Ipswich but I live in the Country" to not be allowed to use any of IBC's facilities, they should be reserved for Ipswich Residents and every car that comes from outside the borough but is registered within 10 miles has to pay a £10 congestion charge per visit. Then we would see whose "not part of Ipswich, sniff stick your nose in the air and sneer".
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