Louise Gooch has presented a report to the Ipswich Borough Council Executive on the Cement Ship (it’s linked here and in PDF).

I would have liked it to have waited until after the Port Liaison Committee next week and to have been a bit stronger on the fact that we haven’t judged the silencer over the summer, but it seems fair enough on the noise.

I would say that the dust is a bigger issue than they think, its’ definitely been something that people are still talking about around Bridge. Louise Gooch, who was the Liberal Democrat candidate for Bridge at the County Council election, so it is rather ironic that she can’t see the issue that’s clearly developing here. It may be no bigger than a man’s hand at the moment, but these things quickly develop.

People are being kept up by the containers on the West Bank now, and I hope to have more on this later. But it is good to see that the Port issues are not as all encompassing as they were just six months ago. Perhaps Labour can stop taking credit for the work of the Noise Action Group now.

Edit: I forgot to thank Ipswich Spy. Bad manners.

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 on by the Noise Action Group convinced her that we wanted to be good neighbours (a phrase we keep on using).  It does seem that the councillors really, really resent Southern Cement for putting them in the position that they are in.

Other news, the Evening Star have put out a piece on the internet about the Council executive meeting, here.