IP4 1LG Ipswich

Streets

• Wherry Quay, Ipswich: 19 addresses
• Neptune Quay, Ipswich: 1 address
• Regatta Quay, Ipswich: 1 address

Council tax

What each band costs in Ipswich in 2026-27: Band D £2,468 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (37% of about 1,060 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

• Conservation area: yes, Central Conservation Area. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
• Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 19.
• Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): Article 4 Direction for Small HMOs.
• Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
• Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

• 80 and 80A Fore Street including warehouses to rear (The Sale Room, The Crossway and warehouse to south fronting Wherry Quay), grade I
• 54-58, FORE STREET, grade II*
• 86, FORE STREET, grade II*
• 88, FORE STREET, grade II*
• COBBOLDS ON THE QUAY PUBLIC HOUSE, grade II*
• WAREHOUSE ATTACHED TO WEST OF WAREHOUSE (THE CROSSWAY) AT REAR OF NUMBERS 80 AND 80A FORE STREET, grade II*
• 1-7, WHERRY LANE, grade II
• 44, FORE STREET, grade II
• 46-52, FORE STREET, grade II
• 60 AND 62, FORE STREET, grade II
• 71 AND 71A, FORE STREET, grade II
• 73 AND 75, FORE STREET, grade II
• 84, FORE STREET, grade II
• 89 AND 91, FORE STREET, grade II
• 90 AND 92, FORE STREET, grade II
• 97 FORE STREET, grade II
• THE LORD NELSON INN, grade II
• WALLS ENCLOSING JEWS' BURIAL GROUND, grade II
• WAREHOUSE OR STORE AT REAR OF NUMBERS 54 TO 58 (EVEN), grade II

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

• Commercial Bldgs & Jewish Burial Ground, Star Lane: up to 50 homes, not permissioned (80 m)
• Land between 81-97 Fore Street: up to 22 homes, permissioned (80 m)
• Land between Lower Orwell Street and Star Lane, not permissioned (160 m)
• Former Gym and Trim, Foundation Street: up to 18 homes, permissioned (200 m)
• Peter's Ice Cream etc Grimwade St: up to 35 homes, not permissioned (210 m)
• Waterworks Street: up to 23 homes, not permissioned (210 m)
• 19-23 Fore Street, permissioned (220 m)
• Smart Street/Foundation Street: up to 56 homes, not permissioned (240 m)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this postcode, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 8 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 1 homes the Environment Agency counts, 1 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 0 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 161 residents in 102 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Homes

Work and commuting

Education and languages

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.