A new youth hub to provide a space for children and young people in a Suffolk town has moved a step closer to fruition after plans were submitted for the facility.

Woodbridge-based charity Jetty Lane has applied to East Suffolk Council for permission to build the hub at its home near Kingston Fields, which will include a 'playscape' for neuro-divergent children, the term for people whose brains work differently to the 'typical' brain.

The hub is also set to showcase a 'first' for the UK - a vintage litter museum to teach children about how long litter stays in the environment.

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The plans are to remove four existing temporary buildings at the site in The Avenue and provide two two-storey buildings, one of which will be used for the hub and the other as a nursery operated by early years care provider Childbase Partnership.

Jetty Lane trustee Cordelia Richman said the charity was working in partnership with the nursery provider to develop the site.

Previous plans to create the hub had been approved by the council, but the building work had not taken place because of insufficient funding.

However, Cordelia said this time the hub would come to fruition due to the partnership with Childbase.

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She said: "Assuming we get the permission, it will be built and we will be able to offer fantastic facilities for children and young people in this area."

Jetty Lane was established in 2017 as a community initiative following the demolition of Woodbridge Youth Centre and the hub will also provide a home for the youth and children's charity Just42, which was based at the youth centre for ten years.

The hub will also be able to hold pop-up events as part of its aim to 'engage, unite and inspire' local young people and promote social and cultural 'connectedness,' via arts, culture and wellbeing activities.

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