East Suffolk
Located on the east coast of England, East Suffolk has a strong, diverse and dynamic economy with a wide range of opportunities for future growth alongside major economic, cultural, heritage and environmental assets.
The largest town is Lowestoft with a population of around 70,000 and home to just under a third of the 240,000 people who live within East Suffolk. Almost 50 miles away and to the south, Felixstowe is the second largest settlement home to around 25,000 people. Then there are smaller market towns – like Woodbridge, Leiston, Framlingham, Halesworth, Beccles, and Bungay – which are distributed around East Suffolk and typically have populations of 5,000-10,000 people.
East Suffolk has a wide-ranging portfolio of cultural, heritage and environmental assets and a very distinctive and diverse visitor economy. It is home to outstanding landscapes of rivers, estuaries and nature reserves (some within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) as well as the ‘southern gateway’ to the Broads National Park and a coastline that extends for close to fifty miles. Major heritage assets range from Anglo-Saxon archaeology and the birthplace of radar at Bawdsey to castles, forts and museums. It is an area which people enjoy, and many choose to spend their leisure time there.
