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This letter found its way to me.

The bottom line is that the meeting will be at the Gainsborough Labour Club, 394 Landseer Road, Ipswich, IP3 9LX on September 1st, from 4pm to 7pm.

Here’s a link to the map.

We’re writing to let you know about some work we are proposing to do at our Cliff Quay waste water treatment works in Ipswich. Our plans will not increase any odour that the site generates, and will increase its capacity.

Waste water to you – fertiliser to us!

You might wonder what happens to the water you flush down the toilet, empty out of the sink, or tip into the drain. But it’s at the point the waste leaves you that Anglian Water steps in. We treat the water and clean it up before it’s returned to the environment.

One of the by-products of this treatment process is a nutrient-rich soil improver that we provide to local farmers to use as fertiliser on their land. At Cliff Quay, we treat most of the waste water for this area, and produce approximately 48,000 tonnes of this soil improver each year.

But with proposed growth in the Ipswich area, we know we’ll need to handle more waste water, which will produce more of this fertiliser product. To do this we need to enhance the treatment process at Cliff Quay, and increase the capacity of the waste water treatment works.

We also plan to look at the possibility of further developing the existing commercial composting service at the site, in keeping with national plans for minimising waste.

Please come and see what we’re planning

Anglian Water intends to submit a full planning application to Suffolk County Council, but we’d like you to have the chance to see our proposed development before we submit plans for it.

We’d like to invite you to a public exhibition at
Gainsborough Labour Club, Ipswich on September 1st,
from 4pm to 7pm, so we can share our plans with you.

Any questions?

We know you may have questions about our plans. Here are some answers to the queries we’ve already received.

Will the new works cause an increase in smells from the site?
No. Overall, our proposal will not increase any odour from the site. And new installations will have required odour treatment mitigation equipment installed.

Will you be expanding the site?
No. All development will take place within the existing boundary of the works.

What material will you treat on site?
The site will treat all the waste water from your area, and will continue to treat liquid sludge from other works such as at Bury St Edmunds just as it does now.

Will the scheme have any impact on the environment?
We asked Suffolk County Council for their opinion on the need for an Environmental Impact Assessment, and they told us that our plans “would not produce any unusually complex or potentially hazardous environmental effects” and that “it would not be likely to have significant effects on the environment”.

What will the development look like?
The proposed layout and appearance of the development will be submitted in support of the planning application. But if you come along on September 1st, we will be able to share these plans with you.

What if you can’t make the open day?

If you can’t make it on September 1st, our planning application will be consulted on by Suffolk County Council, and you are welcome to get in touch with them to express your opinion. You’re also welcome to get in touch with me – my contact details are below.

We hope you can make it though, and look forward to meeting you. Don’t
forget – September 1st, between 4pm and 7pm.

Yours sincerely,

Steve Swan
Anglian Water Special Projects
sswan@anglianwater.co.uk

Public Meeting. Planning permission. Public nuisance. Cliff Quay. The memories are flooding back.

Unlike last year’s heritage day this year’s open day is not very well publicised. As I’ve been getting some searches on this I thought I’d put in some details for this year.

The Ipswich heritage day in 2010 will be, as usual, two days, Saturday 11th Septembter and Sunday 12th September. English heritage list the following attractions:

* Admiral’s House
* Arlingtons Brasserie (the original Ipswich museum, hence why Museum Street has no museum on it)
* Bethesda Baptist Chapel
* Broomhill Pool
* Christ Church, Tacket Street
* Freston Tower
* Holy Trinity Church, Bishops Hill / Back Hamlet
* Ipswich School – Exclusive school and Socialist blogger hangout
* Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
* Pykenham’s Gatehouse
* Ipswich Institute Reading Room and Library
* Sproughton Tithe Barn (totally refurbished apparently)
* St Lawrence’s Church
* St Peter’s Church
* The Old Custom House
* Town Hall
* Waterfront Building, University Campus Suffolk
* Willis Building (surprisingly good if you haven’t seen it)

The opening times vary so please go to the English heritage website.

Earlier in the week I had a knock on my door from a rather charming person who explained that they were putting up windows at a near neighbour’s of mine in Belstead Avenue and would I be interested. The notepaper he gave me was from “L Joyce Ltd Windows & Doors”. No telephone number or email address (I’ve looked subsequently on Google and they are legitimate, but without much of a web presence, I guess they’re going to have a higher web presence now).

Any way, despite the fact that I have very good builders I quite like the fact that people pay some attention to this, and so I arranged for a quote on Friday with the proviso that he call first.

Then on Wednesday a neighbour said that he had seen this man on my front lawn looking at my windows. “What are you doing?” he asked, to which he got a rather aggressive reply. As I didn’t have the phone number for L Joyce Ltd I thought I’d wait for the call and tell them that I could not deal with them due to the aggressiveness and rudeness.

Well today he called round, without a telephone call first. I explained that I did not want a quote, and why I did not want a quote. And then I got an aggressive response back, “Thanks for wasting my time” (no swearing or intimidation, just a raised voice).

So I can’t vouch for the work of L Joyce Ltd Windows & Doors, but I can tell you that if you do use them, make sure that you don’t get into any misunderstandings, as it could turn very ugly.

This should be a good day. It’s at the Halifax Bowls Pavillion and there will be a climbing wall and a children’s fancy dress parade. The mayor will be opening it around 11 AM and the fun goes on until 4pm.

I know the Ipswich Stoke transmitter is not due to go digital until 2011, but until Tuesday we were getting a digital signal. Now there’s no digital or analogue signal received at all and so no TV. It’s probably good for us, but is it general – or is it just our aerial.

(Yes it’s poor throughout Old Stoke and into Maidenhall).

Just a reminder that the “Vegetable Games” run by the Town & Bridge project is on this Saturday from 11.30am till 4pm. It’s at the People’s Community Garden in Maidenhall Allotments.

There’s events will include:

• Arts and Crafts Competitions
• Vegathon Games running all day
• Health Bus/ Barbeque/Tea and Home made cakes
• Samboomba Samba Band / Live Music in the Summer House
• Smoothie Bike-make your own healthy smoothies with pedal power

One of the best lines that Labour has in this mess that they’ve given this country is that the best way to get rid of the deficit is to grow out of it. Don’t increase taxes, don’t cut spending (by more than Labour were promising) but grow, baby, grow.

If this is not a euphemism for higher inflation, which it may well be, then this is a cogent argument against the cuts. After all it was a cogent argument that Ronald Reagan used with some effect to cut taxes in the supply side revolution. That certainly had some success but there was another shoe.

To grow you need to deregulate, and fast and hard. This does not simply mean a Heseltine style removal of antiquated laws banning absinthe or forcing black cab drivers to carry around a bale of hay, but real deregulation in the way things are produced, distributed and exchanged (to paraphrase a genocidal German). This would certainly give a shot in the arm to business and we could get on top deficit without massive cuts in government expenditure.

Of course a pro-growth policy would start hitting against our membership of the European Union (although as I’ve recently been a Tory candidate I should simply stick my fingers in my ears and loudly protest that Europe can be reformed and its all about gold plating directives). If buses in Wherstead Road aren’t allowed to run to a common time table due to anti-competition rules from Brussels, you know that any pro-growth policies are going to hit trouble from those economic colossi in the European Commission like Baroness Ashton.

But let’s imagine that we could deregulate. If we could would Labour support it? I suspect that their attitude in everything from their continued opposition to job creation at a local level to a competition among their leadership contenders as to who can tax small businessmen most ruthlessly proves that their bias for the man in Whitehall is still strong.

So Labour is either hiding its deregulatory zeal, not really serious about cutting the deficit or confusing vigorous opposition with an providing alternative narrative.

Ben Gummer’s column for the Evening Star can now be found on his blog. The last four entries were:

Thank you – 21st May
Getting Started – 28th May
Never Give In – 4th June
Honouring the Hospital – 11th June

It’s not in Bridge, but it’s close by. The newly reopened County of Suffolk, in St. Helen’s Street has Ben Gummer MP from about 8 pm onwards. The pub is opposite the old Suffolk County Council headquarters. Now he’s the MP, it’s your duty to make his life uncomfortable.

If anyone has any questions for the port or enviromnmental services, please let me know. It starts at 6 pm, Monday.