ENVIRONMENT

TetraPaks

We took two Builder's Bags full of flattened TetraPaks to Lowestoft Rcycling Centre in Haddenham Road on Easter Bank Holiday Monday. It was cold and drizzly.

The Centre was a bit taken aback by the quantity, and the source of the TetraPaks.

Because of this we will have to investigate, and to this end have asked the Environment Agency for advice.

The relentless Use It All team will be in London Road North on Friday 28th April 2023, 10 – 12.

We'll be collecting the usual, including TetraPaks, even though The Lowestoft Recycling Centre has thrown doubt on our activities.

We will be re-launching HopeScotch, our take on hopscotch, where players can change the world, for the better.

Some of us might even be hot-foot from The Big One,

We will also be collecting more signatures for our 'Do Something About TetraPaks' campaign.

Workmen are busy taking down the roof of the Triangle Sails, and have started to saw down the metal framework.

So far, the trees are still standing.

Lowestoft Town Council intends to improve the area by removing the sails, the structure, and two of the trees. They intend to replace the trees with other, smaller trees.

The harbour was originally built by the Lowestoft and Norwich Navigation Company and developed by the Norfolk Railway following the construction of the Norwich to Lowestoft railway.[4] The original Inner Harbour was constructed in 1831 when Lake Lothing was joined to the sea, as shown on a chart based on a survey by William Hewett of HMS Fairy dated 1834,[5] while the Outer Harbour was constructed in 1937.[4] The railway line ran along the north side of the docks and a series of docks railway sidings were used mainly for fishing and freight wagons. Added: 22 September, 2023

Looking southwards, along the North Sea Wall, to Ness Point - the most easterly part of the UK mainland. The presence of the Gulliver wind-turbine and the Orbis Energy Centre building just beyond it reminds us of Lowestoft’s role in the new world of renewable supplies of electricity - though it seems ironic that the turbine itself never seems to have its blades turning sufficiently to make any notable contribution to the National Grid.

A different kind of warning light from that referred to in Beacon Stones, with safety at sea the main consideration rather than warning of attack by an enemy.

Link to EAST side..

Meetings are open to non-members by invitation only; interested persons should contact the Hon Secretary. The society records the history of the port of Lowestoft and collects all relative material.

The Society has a collection of 13,000 photographic prints and index cards of vessels that were built in, owned at or visited Lowestoft. The collection is housed in the Lowestoft branch of the Suffolk Record Office.

Contact Secretary Stanley Earle stanearl1944@gmail.com

As a direct result of the climate emergency declaration, a cross-party Environment Task Group was established to analyse policies inherited from East Suffolk’s predecessor’s (Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils) to ensure these policies are fit for purpose and identify areas for improvement.

The Environment Task Group meets quarterly, reporting to Cabinet where issues are then discussed to decide if a feasibility study is required.

By adopting a climate emergency, the council has begun to thread the environment through all decisions, choices and policy formation.