The next meeting is on the 24th. If you have any comments or questions on the port and whether it is being a good neighbour then please email me on james@bridgeward.org.uk and I will take your queries further.

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 test case for the actions of Southern Cement and the Port of Ipsiwich.

We hope to give a more full account of the port focus group in the near future. We have managed to get Peter Evans, one of the founders of the Noise Action group, appointed to the Port Liaison group. Southern Cement have also fitted a silencer on their unloading machinery. While welcoming this we want to see if the recent quiet spell is due to the silencer or the fact that winter seems to have dampened the noise.

To get on to the Noise Action Group newsletter simply email noise@bridgeward.org.uk

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 the various issues arising from the port.  We should try to make this work.  Please could you pass me and concerns you have about the noise from the port or about any other issue that concern the port, and I will pass these concerns on.

My email is james@bridgeward.org.uk