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 [...]
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 Southern Cement Ltd tag
13 Feb 10
Nick Herbert visits Bridge
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 [...]
24 Aug 09
Only a couple of days left to complain
You don’t have long left to complain about the Southern cement environmental waiver. The address is:
Ipswich Borough Council
Grafton House
Ipswich
IP1 2DE
6 Aug 09
More Cement ship misery
Yes it was back last night. I wandered around to hear, it was quiet (although present) at the bottom of Rectory Road and I couldn’t hear it at all in Stoke Street. However when I walked into Austin Street it was quite intrusive. The same was the case at the top Wherstead Road (up to [...]
1 Aug 09
Breaking News: Southern Cement want to make the noise worse
Thank you to Henry Cooper and Des Pawson who sent this through:
I’ve transcribed the announcement below:
Evening Star, Thursday, July 30, 2009
Southern Cement Ltd (No 1 Shed, Cliff Quay, Port of Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 0BS)
Southern Cement Ltd has applied to Ipswich Borough Council to vary their Environmental Permit for the blending, packing, loading, unloading and use [...]
25 Jul 09
Southern Cement, some support from the council – at last
I’ve been officially informed by one of the councillors that the Council have postponed rather than cancelled a meeting with Southern Cement. It was all an unfortunate (very unfortunate) turn of phrase and they are instead awaiting developments.
The ludicrously easy to meet request from the group for a direct meeting with Southern Cement is also [...]
21 Jul 09
The Southern Cement Ship is back – and how to complain
I just got this email:
I knew something was odd this morning as they were cleaning the quay side with their mechanical sweeper lorry. It might be a new one.
Anyway as I write 8.45 they are getting the Kovak into place. That means about 11 the ship will arrive and by 12 they should be pumping.
If [...]
