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Uniland SA: At least they’re showing some interest

James Spencer — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:07:01 +0000

I was going through my statistics today and noticed the search Ipswich Noise Abatement Group (this blog comes first). I rarely take these things that seriously but I thought I’d find out who’s looking at this, from the web address 80.34.174.215, and what do you know, it’s owned by Telefonica de Espana.

Looking further it seems that 11.05% of my web hits are from Spain. Allow for the fact that this is getting low traffic (it’s a new blog, I say defensively) that’s still abnormal. You’d expect a few people to be assigned wrongly (1.93% of my visitors are from the Republic of Moldova), but not this wrongly.

So the only people who would be interested are Uniland SA, the parent company of Southern Cement, the most offensive noise polluter in Ipswich port.

So a big Hola to all you Catalan cement makers, and please keep the noise down.

Southern Cement – more southern than you’d think

James Spencer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:11:04 +0000

Sometimes it’s hardest to see what’s in front of your own nose. So hidden in plain view is a very important fact, Southern Cement- the people causing misery for all those people in the Hayes, in the Maidenhall Estate, on the Wherstead Road and in Chatsworth Crescent, is in fact the British subsidiary of Uniland SA, a large Spanish cement company. It was on their homepage:

http://www.southerncement.co.uk/

Southern Cement still holds itself out as quite independent saying “This gives us the benefit of independence in the UK with the support of one of Europe’s leading cement manufacturers”.

They were bought out in 2004, not long after they started, although there doesn’t seem to be any press mention of Uniland, which makes it sounds a lot more British.

In fact, according to their results, they make up rougly 1-2% of the turnover and employees of the group.

So not only are they disturbing our sleep two weeks in three they are not even the British based independent that they claim to be.

No wonder they are happy to crank up the noise pollution, they don’t just not live in this town – they don’t even live in this country.

Art in the Garden

James Spencer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:26:54 +0000

The People’s Community Garden (or the Maidenhall Allotments) will be having a free Art in the Garden event on 4th June 10am to 3.30 pm as part of the IP Art program.

See here for details:

http://www.ip-art.com/event_listing_details.php?id=62

If you’re not from the area, then here’s a map:

http://www.ip-art.com/event_listing_details.php?id=62

Should prove useful for our councillors.