Saturday, July 29, 2006









MAP OF BRAZIER'S WOOD AND BRIDGE WOOD AND SOME OF NACTON ROAD.
http://static.flickr.com/57/201331576_27be7bebd9_b.jpg This is nine sheets of photocopy laid rather haphazardlyto give an idea of the area taken from a 1926 map.
http://static.flickr.com/61/201331578_69013e05dd_b.jpg The top of Bridgewood Interestingly showing a footpathleading down to Pond Hall.
http://static.flickr.com/58/201331579_9eaae1428d_b.jpg Brazier's Wood again. Note the larger of the Brazierswood cottages. This is probably now the junction of Clapgte Lane and Brazier's Wood Road. Also note the fantastic array of footpaths.
http://static.flickr.com/75/201331582_f8b9e21302_b.jpg This shows much clearer the Brazierswood Cottages and the footpathleading from it to the top of the page which is Nacton Road. One side of Maryon Road where is joins Nacton Road is now the Golden Hind pub and opposite is a bungalow my grand mother owned some 60/70 years ago.
http://static.flickr.com/57/201357962_055f4d3498_b.jpg Two sheets of another 1926 map showing Bridgewood and the massof footpaths through it.
http://static.flickr.com/58/201357963_875a173e32_b.jpg Bridge Wood closer up At the top right a three way junction offootpaths can be seen. From the word 'only' go down to thefirst set of horizontal dotted lines. This is the presentboundary between IBC and Suffolk Coastal Council and where it runs into the three way junction is where IBC have erected illegal gates. Mr Vuliamys house is not shown in Bridge Wood so I can only assume it was not built in 1926 and Downhamreach is shown to be nearer Brazier's Wood than the house.
http://static.flickr.com/76/201357964_01db5179a1_b.jpg More of Bridge Wood and the old Priory ruins and of coursemasses of footpaths. Click on any of the hyperlinks or pics to see an enlarged version.
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Thursday, July 20, 2006




RAVENSWOOD TO BECOME A SOCIAL HOUSING ESTATE PLAN BY IBC.
They are using the same tactics as they did in Old Foundry Road at Phillips and Pipers when lovely and very expensive town flats were sold to owners who then found they could not resell because some flats had been rented to lowlife junkies. The owners had to rent them out to junkies and benefit claimants with loads of kids and drug habits themselves as they no longer liked living there and putting up with the IBC induced nonsense and nobody other than lowlife would move there. This will happen at Ravenswood too with IBC help as property owners do not vote labour and this is a labour voting area.

A hand delivered letter from IBC arrives. Heck they are even using some of my pics in it.
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Well it is if course the usual nonsense starting at page one I will deal with it now. The picture shows a barrier that power wheelchair users cannot access. The powerchair in the pic is a standard NHS powerchair which both Steve Hunt and his boss Andy Sheppard observed could not get past this gate. The ridiculous thing is these barriers are supposed to stop motorcycles but they get through them with ease. Those that cannot be bothered to get off their bikes just ride further up the road by the school or ride in here, where Andy Sheppard and Steve Hunt are walking over potential Sky Larks nests! Surely not as that is where they have decided I cannot go http://static.flickr.com/49/186483881_caffb40128_b.jpg beside the builders portacabins
where cars can also access the site. Motorbikes can access Braziers Wood at many other points on Legoland. Page two
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again using one if my pics shows a illegally blocked footpath. The statement that it has no bearing on access to Braziers wood is nonsense. This path is the only access point possible for powerchair users as using the stupidly dangerous "K" barrier is a no go as there is presently no way to get toBraziers wood in a powerchair through the "K" barrier. This is a "K" barrier http://static.flickr.com/50/126557029_f66d8861be_b.jpg Pairs of kids on motorcycles get through these easily by turning their handlebars on full lock and their mate drags the bike or scooter through by the front wheel. Police bikes will not get through though so they do not chase and look silly. This is how they get through the other gates and away from plod. In and lift front wheel http://static.flickr.com/55/163805215_c3fe4826f0_b.jpg
Swing gate http://static.flickr.com/76/163805253_92da74c024_b.jpg
Job done http://static.flickr.com/76/163805273_7bc001e92f_b.jpg Beyond the gate shown on page two is another
http://static.flickr.com/36/125912871_01f5f1be8b_b.jpg that is also locked with a padlock and chain which again is an illegally installed gate across a footpath. I really do not understand all this nonsense that opening this illegal gate would disturb Sky Larks as the park workers use this gate and the whole site is used by motorcycles and has been since the last war. I think IBC are just grasping excuses out of thin air. The area is over run with foxes, are IBC going to organise a fox hunt or even ban people taking their dogs over here because a dog can really spoil a Sky Larks day? In actual fact this is a very expensive new gate requested by IBC workers who didn't like spending the summer afternoons at Braziers Wood and come 4pm they couldn't shoot off home because dog walkers had parked their cars in front of the gate effectively blocking them in for a few minutes. It made no difference as now people still park in front of this massively expensive new gate:-)
Page Three is so amusing I think Steve Hunt is having a laugh. He will not have this little bit of grass cut beside the builders portacabin in case there are Sky Larks nesting there!!! Him and his boss are shown walking here after having me go through it in my powerchair while they watched in case I got stuck. http://static.flickr.com/56/194246157_e626e86f07_b.jpg It is obviously OK for the tractor that cuts the grass beyond this strip to drive on here to mow here and much further in. http://static.flickr.com/69/181108598_1f0da8ad6a_b.jpg http://static.flickr.com/63/164265809_b6da18cd15_b.jpg Acres have been mowed. On IBC's reckoning this must have mashed loads of Sky Larks so I suppose Mr Hunt has some wonderful way of allowing a tractor to drive here and do less damage to a reckless Sky Lark nesting on an obviously well used track then a wheelchair would do. The ironic thing is I can drive my car through here and youngsters on motorcycles can ride his way but I cannot go here with my wheel chair. Yes I even drive through here with a collapsable wheelchair in the back of my car but I do not fool the Sky Larks who are well aware when a car or motorcycle approaches. I hate to think how IBC are going to explain what happens to the larks when the huge area is mowed. Come to that they must have really upset quite few Sky Larks when they allowed Ravenswood to be built but I suppose that doesn't count as it was sanctioned by errrr IBC. Well they are God here as the residents are about to discover when Macdonalds opens.
Page four http://static.flickr.com/45/194246154_e17738a239_b.jpg shows how little respect IBC have for folks living on Ravenswood. The map shows every access point for motorcycles is at Ravenswood so the folks living there get all the motorcycle traffic but at least they are spared the sight of cripples in wheelchairs cluttering the place up. IBC are creating a modern ghetto here intentionally as they are no longer allowed to build social housing they just create it. When Macdonalds opens people will no longer have to travel along the A14 to feed. This will become a meeting place and soon a few residents will move and find they cannot sell so they will rent out to social tenants and the remaining houses and flats that cannot be sold will also be rented out to the usual mix of druggies and immigrant as Phillips and Pipers development in Old Foundry Road was and then nobody will be able to sell again as in Old Foundry Road so they will have no choice but to rent out to social security tenants. IBC has planned this well and obviously intended this all along when they sealed all other entrances to Braziers Wood and Bridge Wood as that is where people used to bolt through when chased by plod. They will soon cotton on to Ravenswood as the only escape route left and burning cars will become common placed cooking the Sky Larks. The police will not chase as they know they cannot follow through that area and they are not going to make themselves look silly by trying and failing so a brand new rat run escape route is being created for all being chased or just wanting to dump a car. This is deliberate policy although Mr Steve Hunt and Mr Andy Sheppard do not realise they are part of a preconceived plan. They had to go to college to learn how to be stupid. The senior IBC directors will make sure the residents have a powerless IBC employee or two to liase with to make it look good and even a local part time community warden too but they are powerless without the will of IBC to do anything. The whole area is Internationally recognised as being a "Dogging" area in internet chat rooms such as "Swinging Heaven" and "Melanies" and the car parks at the Orwell Country Park are heaving most nights after 10pm through till 4am. There are even people living there sometimes. Anybody who has watched the area as I have will recognise the cars that trawl between Nacton Shores and The Orwell Country Park all night long looking for action. The police will drive by now and again but not get out of their cars as they regard it as being an adult social area. Heck it even goes on during the day. All you have to do is look for cars facing into the car park with a single male in it and note how often it is there. I sometimes photograph them as can be seen on here http://www.flickr.com/photos/ipswich/ but it is a dangerous thing to do at night when all the fat truck drivers who overnight at the Truck Stop on the A14 turn up for their nights dogging action. Last night (Thurday 20th July) they were still haunting the place at 3am when I took my dog out. Surely the residents must have realised that by being surrounded by labour voting council estates they were doomed to be moved on for labour voting social housing?
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Saturday, July 15, 2006





We are going to lose all this. The East Anglian Daily Times out lines it here. http://tinyurl.co.uk/zc2c

However, the wildlife trust believes these objections will not be taken into account by planners when deciding whether the option should be included in the new planning blueprint, which will guide development in the borough over the next decade and beyond.
The proposed route of the link road goes through parts of the Orwell Country Park and the trust claims it would weaken the wildlife value of the adjacent Pipers Vale nature reserve and Ipswich's only ancient woodland, Braziers Wood.
The trust disclosed yesterday that nightingales and linnets - both nationally declining species - were now breeding at Elm Hill, which is on the line of the route.
Dr Simone Bullion, the trust's senior conservation officer, said: “Wildlife habitat would be fragmented and sites of local, regional and national importance, including two County Wildlife Sites and Ipswich's only ancient woodland would be utterly destroyed.”
Dr Bullion said a go-ahead for the road would set a dangerous precedent and would be at odds with the environmental achievements of the borough council and Suffolk County Council.
“The effects of this link road cannot be mitigated for and, in effect, will ensure a downgrading of the overall natural quality of this area.
“Whilst we are not opposed to the principle of improved access around the port we do not feel that the link road can be justified.
“Nor do we believe it would be effective in addressing the current traffic problems. In fact, further retail development associated with the proposed road would add to, not reduce, existing congestion,” she added.
The wildlife trust estimates that the nature areas which would be affected by the link road comprise a quarter of the entire wildlife area within the borough boundaries.
Members of the public have until July 24 to register their views about the new development framework. " EADT Saturday 15th July 2006

That is only seven working days. I have been posting about this for some time now so please take notice now and register your objections or there will soon be no Orwell Country Park/Bridgewood or Brazierswood left.

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Monday, July 10, 2006


Monday 10th July 06
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Andy Shepard left Steve Hunt right from IBC who met me at Ravenswood this afternoon in an attempt to make Bridgewood and Brazierwood more accessible to wheelchair users. I was very happy with the response from Andy Sheppard who did seem to be much more amenable to change and listening to others than Steve Hunt has been to date. I was told that the following will happen now.

This area to be mowed and leveled.

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This gate to be made into a RADAR gate.

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This gate made into a RADAR gate

http://static.flickr.com/36/125912871_01f5f1be8b_b.jpgThis one too.

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This gate to be RADAR disabled vehicular access.

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I will keep an eye on how things progress. There is also to be some kind of action taken about the single males who haunt the car parks too but just what I do not know yet. Possibly something along the lines of writing to the car owners address as they did with Portman Road when men solicited prostitutes.


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Monday, July 03, 2006

Where the old wind sock was http://static.flickr.com/65/181293754_8a70575349_b.jpg
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Ravenswood in the background http://static.flickr.com/54/181293757_bf842dc112_b.jpg

This is crazy. A car, motorcycle, a pedestrian, cycle or even a horse and cart can get here but a powerchair or manual wheel chair cannot. Just why is Ipswich Borough Council so determined to defy the Disability Discrimination Act? This car is now beyond the access gates to Braziers Wood which are over to the left some distance.
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IPSWICH BOROUGH COUNCIL DIRECTOR TRACEY LEE REPLIES AT LAST.
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And then disappears on a jolly to Bournmouth for a LGA officers knees up. This letter is dated the 29th but as it was posted 2nd class I didn't get it until the 3rd and by that time Tracey Lee was on a week long jolly in Bournmouth for a local government officers knees up so I ws asked if I would like Andy Sheppard to ring me back and I said yes. He didn't bother though.
The letter is innacurate in as much as it says there is wheelchair access from Ravenswood and goes on to refer to Andy Sheppards letter of the 26th May below;
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But in this letter Andy Sheppard says there is no access from Ravenswood!!!!! The one place wheelchairs could access Braziers Wood from Ravenswood estate is now overgrown and only cars and motorcycles can use it.
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http://static.flickr.com/70/181108599_0ac0660eb3_b.jpg Forward and back along the 'reasonable level grass access paths' If that is resonable level what is an unreasonable level?
http://static.flickr.com/69/181108598_1f0da8ad6a_b.jpg Past the wheelchair trap the grass has been mown. Why not mow the access too? As Tracey Lee is not available now this complaint will have to go to the CEO James Heir. I cannot understand the thinking behind decisions that mini 30mph motorcycles are ok but not wheelchairs. I have seen plenty of pukka scramble motorcycles over there anyhow but apparently IBC prefer to say it doesn't happen. Heck I have even seen motorcars over there. See below;
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It is obvious that motorcars and motorcycles access Braziers Wood so why are IBC so anti disabled people?
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