I was at the Wherstead Road Residents Association reporting the committee on what I’ve been doing on the buses and the noise yesterday and having almost got run over crossing the road it seems clear that the road needs a crossing.
This is something that the committee are clear on, in fact the Association has been [...]
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 Borough Council tag
4 Feb 10
Wherstead Road needs a decent crossing
18 Jan 10
Ipswich Buses: Chris Mole could stop it
The Council runs a bus service. They want to sell it off. There is a big local campaign led by the local (and under threat) Labour MP. The government minister in charge says that while sympathetic, there’s nothing he wants to do, saying that it’s up to councils.
But it’s not Ipswich, it’s Plymouth. And the [...]
5 Jan 10
Ipswich Buses, the Tories respond
At last the Tories respond on the potential sale of the stake in Ipswich Buses to the Go-Ahead group. Obviously it’s partisan, mercilessly mocking Labour on their three positions on bus privatisation (nationally for, locally both adamantly against and saying maybe but not yet). That’s to be expected, after all with Chris Mole as the [...]
5 Oct 09
Port Noise: The Meeting is tomorrow
I know it’s becoming old news for the regular readers, but the public meeting is coming up. We’ve been saying that the council don’t listen to us, well they are now. If you don’t turn up they’ll say that you’re not interested.
It’s rumoured that the BBC may have more listeners than this blog has readers, [...]
24 Sep 09
Shock Revelation: We’re not Luddites
I was rather angry at the environment portfolio holder Louise Gooch’s comments that the Noise Action Group wanted to shut down Southern Cement. We’ve always been quite clear that this is not what we wanted. I emailed her to let her know that I was angry.
And a miracle occurred.
A politician changed their mind. The presentation put [...]
Filed in Ipswich Port Noise Abatement
23 Sep 09
Change on the Public Meeting Venue
The Public meeting will now be at the IP-City centre at the top of Wherstead Road.
22 Sep 09
Southern Cement: Report from the Council Executive
The Council Executive today considered the application for the Southern Cement expansion. They were told in no uncertain terms by the Council officers that they could do … nothing. There will be a fuller report in the Evening Star tomorrow, and I can’t do shorthand. Some highpoints:
Des Pawson put across the case very well, showing [...]
21 Sep 09
Tomorrow: The Council discuss the Cement ship
Remember the Council executive will be hearing arguments for and against whether Southern Cement should expand its operations.
It will be at Grafton House in the Orwell Room, 15-17 Russell Road, at 6pm Tuesday 22nd September.You can get a map here:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=Grafton+House+Ipswich&ie=UTF8&ll=52.054259,1.143179&spn=0.008075,0.027509&z=15&iwloc=A
If you let me know about whether a lift will be needed then I can see about getting [...]
18 Sep 09
Southern Cement goes to the Council
The Ipswich Council executive has agreed to consider a petition from the Wherstead Road residents association. They are opposing Southern Cement’s application to build a new silo and asking the Council to refer this decision to a democratic body. Unfortunately the Council cannot consider the noise as a reason to oppose the extension of the [...]
