The Central Area, Ipswich is one of five administrative areas in Ipswich, through which

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divides its spending and enables feedback from local residents, businesses and community groups. The area is composed of three wards, each represented by three councillors. Each ward is also a

Middle Layer Super Output Area GSS codes are nine-character geocodes maintained by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics (ONS) to represent a wide range of geographical areas of the UK, for use in tabulating census and other statistical data. GSS refers to the Gove ...

(MSOA). As of the

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, the councillors are as follows: These Councillors form the Central Area Committee of which Julian Gibbs is the chair. They are joined by three

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lors: The area is also covered by a

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network which comprises 35 neighbourhood watch schemes.

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