RETAIL & LEISURE

Sailmakers Shopping Centre, Ipswich

OVERVIEW

Ipswich is located approximately 123 km (77 miles) north-east of London, 88 km (55 miles) east of Cambridge, 72 km (45 miles) south of Norwich and 21 km (13 miles) north-west of Felixstowe. The town benefits from good road communications and is located on the A12 which links directly with Junction 28 of the M25 Motorway some 83 km (52 miles) to the south west. The A14 is approximately 3.2 km (2 miles) to the south and serves Felixstowe to the south-east and Cambridge and the M11 Motorway to the west.

In addition, the town is connected to the national railway network with a fastest journey time to London Liverpool Street of 1 hour 7 minutes. Stansted airport is situated approximately 78 km (49 miles) to the south west.

The Ports of Ipswich, together with Felixstowe (the largest container port in the UK and one of the largest in Europe), Mistley and Harwich make it the UK’s most important gateway to the North Sea and trade routes to the near continent and beyond. Together, these ports form the largest near-sea and deep-sea container port complex in the country with significant roll-on, roll-off and passenger ferry functions.

The population of Ipswich is 133,400. Ipswich has grown by 16,326 residents (13.9%) between 2001 and 2011, which ranks it the 10th (out of 64) fastest growing Primary Urban Area in England. Ipswich has a strong employment base for business with a proportionally higher average working age population 87,600 (65.7%) which is higher than the average for the rest of Suffolk (61.0%) and the England average (64.8%).

The Sailmakers Shopping Centre is situated in the heart of Ipswich town centre. It provides a busy link between the prime pedestrianised Tavern Street with the Tower Ramparts Bus Station and nearby town centre car parks.

Modern 133,000ft² covered, town centre shopping centre
Footfall at approx. 5 million per year
The main retail led scheme in Ipswich, also a busy thoroughfare linking the bus station and Tavern Street
Eclectic mix of national, regional and independent tenants
Operators within the scheme include Pandora, Boots, River Island, Warren James, HMV, Blue Inc, Yours, Poundland, Iceland, Chopstix, Subway and Bakers & Baristas