The cement ship is in again, and it’s making noise.
And in other news my site seems to have got triple the amount of unique visitors and these sites are looking at three or four times the amount of pages per visit, and almost all of it is from places like Kuwait or China. The site [...]
Bridge Ward News
News from Bridge Ward, Ipswich including the Hayes, Old Stoke, Prince of Wales Drive, Maidenhall Estate and Wherstead Road
Browsing the archives for the Ipswich Port Noise Abatement category
4 Mar 10
The Cement ship is in
13 Feb 10
Nick Herbert visits Bridge
Never heard of Nick Herbert?*
Well if the Tories do win the General Election you will hear about him a lot more. He’s the shadow environment spokesman for the Conservatives, so it’s a good chance he’ll become a minister if the Tories get in.
When I heard that he was coming down to help Ben Gummer I [...]
1 Feb 10
Port Focus Group minutes
I have been told that the port noise focus group minutes will be up on the council web site soon. �I will put up a link to that as soon as possible.
If someone wants the minutes please email me on james@bridgeward.org.uk
Filed in Ipswich Port Noise Abatement
25 Jan 10
The cement ship is in port
The cement ship has been spotted in port, coming in this morning. I noticed a hum at Belstead Avenue at 6.40 in the morning, but it wasn’t that intrusive.
If anyone else notices the hum, or doesn’t notice it, then it would be appreciated if you can let us know. This is going to be a [...]
14 Jan 10
Port Focus Group
Due to my activity on the Souther Cement I’ve been asked to attend the port focus group.
I will put in a more full account later, but the important piece of news is that the council think that the reason why the noise has reduced is that Southern Cement have installed a silencer. In the Noise [...]
7 Jan 10
View your concerns about the Port
Due to my activity with the Noise Action Group, Ipswich Council has invited me and a few other people concerned with the noise to join a newly formed focus group “focus group” made up of residents, councilors and council officers.
While this group will have no power it can help the council form its responses to [...]
31 Dec 09
Southern Cement, are they being quieter?
Is it me or are Southern Cement being quieter recently? I’ve definitely had fewer complaints.
Is it some permanent change that they’ve made, an operational change that can be quickly reversed or is it some environmental factor connected to the weather over which they have no control.
The frustrating thing is that they are not talking to anyone [...]
24 Nov 09
Get your Port Noise FAQs
I’m just digesting the port noise FAQs that have been put up on the Ipswich Council website. They’re not easy to find, so here’s a direct link (they are in PDF format, so you’ll have to have Adobe Acrobat).
I’m digesting them now, but here’s something that caught my eye:
Q What has Southern Cement done to try [...]
