Business Improvement District Boundaries for Ipswich Town Centre, 2012-2022

Ipswich Central manages the town centre Business Improvement District (BID). This geospatial data contains the boundaries for the BID's second phase, running until March 2017, and the planned boundaries for its third phase, from April 2017 to March 2022. The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Mapping the geographical extent of business rate levies based on the described BID boundaries.
• Analyzing the temporal evolution of a Business Improvement District based on the 'version' field representing different phases.
• Planning for local economic development initiatives based on the defined area managed by Ipswich Central.

Strengths

• Explicitly defines the time intervals for two distinct operational phases of the BID.
• Data originates from the authoritative Government Digital Service.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count and sample data are unavailable, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely administrative data collection by the local BID company, Ipswich Central.

Time Range

Covers BID Phase 2 (until March 2017) and planned Phase 3 (April 2017 to March 2022).

Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Ipswich town centre, United Kingdom.