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Nice story, see you in prison!

i don't agree. I was a councilor for both the local authority and the town council for 4 years - I ALWAYS voted in what I thought was the best interest of the people in my constituency at town meetings AND at LA level - in otherwords, I took my local views and bought them to the county council. The issue comes when parties decide on an issue and pressure councilor to support them. . What is in the best interest of my constituents is that everyone pulls together to try and mitigate and reduce climate change - which IS a real thing.

As I understand this non-political ‘policy’ was that it arose from the fact that LTC has the status of a parish council. Hence party political sponsorship and voting on party lines was against the spirit of parish councils which are supposed to act in the best interests of the community rather than any particular political view. Andy is right to object LTC hosting an essentially Conservative Party engagement event. The way forward is for LTC to the meeting on condition that participation of all political parties on SCC should be permitted and encouraged by SCC’s ruling group.

I honestly don’t know but clearly not blue!

I surmise that Andy is not on the blue team? Does he associate with a team? One of the traffic light colours perhaps?

Just go round the room and then summarise.

It is poor chairing that is at fault. In my view this (undemocratic?) imbalance of contributions from councillors can be corrected by the chair. All they have to is what Paul said while 8 was writing this.

I run events in Lowestoft which are advertised really well but there's always someone out there who says they didn't see it advertised.

X not Twitter anymore. Accept a fair amount of what you say, but weather was awful and that's what stopped a lot of people going.

Noisy? Controlling our lives? Yes but not horrible surely? They have to crap somewhere. You fall into various pitfalls over the somewhat vexed issue of kittiwakes, the hotels were not built to draw away the town kittiwakes, in fact the designers would see that as a failure of their endeavour. Their job is to offset deaths due to wind turbines further north. If the the town is serious about moving them it needs to build its own kittiwake hotels in places close to where they currently nest and where we don’t want them, but built in places where we would be happy to have them. In fact they could be an asset by attracting visitors. Just to put some scale to the problems of gulls locally, this season there were 960 kittiwake nests in town (same as last year but up from 430 in 2018, 650 in 2021). Compared with the Tyne, Hartlepool, Scarborough and so on, that’s not a huge number, but increasing. The bigger gulls (‘as big as dogs’) which rifle through our rubbish and very occasionally steal the odd sausage roll or ice cream, have around 3,000 nests in the town area. When the industrial sheds on the south bank of the inner harbour come down, all but 500 of these will be finding new homes on our domestic roof-tops! The shit will really fly then!

Would be a much better use of our council tax to buy this than some of the other more dubious things our money is spent on.

30km/h works very well in many other countries. The sputtering in the comments from petrolheads is ridiculous. It is only 20mph in villages and places where you should never be driving faster than this. If you want to drive for fun, go to a rally or a track. Cars are simply appliances.

There is no climate crisis only a human stupidity crisis.

They don't want to save lives. They want your money... that's all....

Cars are already doing less than 20mph in stoft. Its the naff road system and idiot pedestrians thats the problem

What a load of climate fanatic lunatic crap...there are people in asylums on meds looking out through the bars of padded cells, who have more common sense than this lot.....

Trying to drive at 20mph is harder than you think, I spend so much time looking at the speedo that I forget to look at the signs and the gaps in-between cars and so much more. It is ridiculous really. I do not feel safer at all at this speed at all, I feel anxious and stressed. 25MPH would have been better. since my car can handle this in 3rd gear nicely and easier to control under the foot. I hate the way they BS facts and stats to try and get their way is very dishonest.

Zero mph has been proven to reduce road accidents by 99%. The 1% of accidents are due to people walking into stationary cars.

Absolute tyrrany!

I thought as LTC is a parish council then party politics should not be relevant. Councillors ought to vote on what is best for the parish.

It literally won't save thousands of lives though and 20mph is ridiculous. What, shall we go 10mph instead using the same logic? How about people just pay attention instead of driving slower?

How on earth does a 20mph speed limit make a "stronger community" exactly? Anyone...........anyone?

If you reduce the speed to 10mph all over Wales then no one will get injured. Better still srape cars all together let's ride on donkeys

Driving through Wales at 20 mph I suddenly realised that my mind had been wandering and not paying attention to the road

Ban cars. It will save even more lives.

That's hilarious. We've had 20mph zones in Wales since March. It didn't work. With a regular gear-shift vehicle we the engine was screaming in second gear and groaning, grumbling in 3rs. They're scrapping the scheme in September.

just implemented in Amsterdam, 30 km/u. Plain and simple; just dont; it will be way more pollution. It is so in-efficient to drive in 1st and 2nd. let them at the very least calculate how much more deaths will come from all extra fuel useage. we are talking up to 50% more gasoline used for some cabbies, on less trips! so more trips or more cars are needed to get same results as before. that just means more miles will be driven AND it is done in 2nd gear mostly and not 3rd or 4th. just dont. be honest about stuff like this. if people find out after their mum died of bad air quality, they wont look too much at how many got saved in accidents.

Errmmm - how many lives has it saved in Wales?

The comedy of the lady's presentation is well suited to her chosen topic. Can we dispel the myth that driving at 20mph has any benefit in terms of decreasing pollution, because it actually increases it. Vehicle engines are not optimised for driving constantly at 20mph and will produce more emissions per mile than driving at the most optimal speed which is between 40 and 60 mph. The national 20mph scheme across all of Wales was such a disaster for the country that the Welsh Assembly had to do a U-turn and get rid of it. It was a failed experiment and English councils should learn from it and not be so stupid that they repeat the same mistakes that others have already learnt from.

Down Whapload Road people are easily doing 50mph. Especially at night. You should get a bike. You could get from Victoria Road to normanston drive in 10 minutes then.

I have never even been to Lowestoft, but what I do know about London it probably relevant. Traffic speed in central London has not changed significantly since he days of horse-drawn traffic, it is slightly faster than typical walking pace (when measured on a door-to-door basis). It is believed that this is because most people will walk if it makes their journey quicker. Thus the volume of traffic increases until the speed of traffic drops to walking pace. Since the average speed of a journey is barely influenced by the maximum speed permitted, the difference in journey time is negligible. However, the difference between being hit by a vehicle at 20 mph or 30 mph is substantial, and often a matter of life or death.

potholes make speed limits redundant

Wales just got rid of the 20mph

I live in Amsterdam and the 20 mph (30 kph) rule was extended from a few test streets a couple of years ago to almost the entire city six months ago. Of course there are people grumbling, but the data clealy shows that it (a) has almost no negative effect on the speed of the traffic flow, and (b) the entire city suddenly feels a lot more safe and relaxed. Everything mingles, kids can accidentally stray onto the road while playing without any danger. It's perfect as far as I can see, the vast majority of motorists follow the rule and the cyclists and pedestrians all love it. And since all motorists are also sometimes cyclists or pedestrians here, most of us agree it is the best solution. I drive in Amsterdam as often as I walk or cycle and I'm quite happy with how relaxed the place has become. Obviously, not everything is perfect. Some roads got the 20 mph designation that don't feel like they should have. Others that don't might as well have. It's a work in progress, but apart from a few fringe car fanatics, most of us are quite happy with it all. Now all we need is to figure out a way to get rid of 90% of the tourists...

One point worth noting is that the default speed limit in urban areas as enshrined in RTA 1988 is 30mph, so it will take an official application to DoT to vary that in specific areas and not a blanket change. The process of any change i.e Traffic Regulation Order is convoluted and lengthy so that Councils don't apply for them unless necessary. You will find that many 20mph 'limits' are in fact not statutorily enforceable and are more a guidance. To establish whether the new limit is enforceable you would have to check whether a TRO was applied for, the statutory process was followed (6 months trial etc) and the final TRO issued. My guess is that most 20mph limits imposed by Councils are not lawful as the cost to impose them is very significant.

With my car (Skoda 1.5Tfsi) I have to drive in 4th(out of 6) gears at 30mph so as not to lug the engine and damage it. At 20mph I have to drive in 3rd gear at the same engine revs for the same reason. Therefore, it will take me 50% longer to travel the same distance at 20mph at the same engine speed as 30mph and consequently I will be adding 50% more pollution to the atmosphere with no change in the noise pollution that I create.

The audio problem is frustratingly easy to solve - insist on everyone using earphones or headphones so the mics don't pick up the audio

In theory, getting hit by a car doing 30 will hurt more than a car doing 20. That's basic physics however, is there any significant statistical evidence that a 20mph speed limit has reduced injuries? We have 20 mph speed limits already and they are all reasonable. Schools, housing estates etc. A blanket 20 mph limit failed in Wales.

It's just getting embarrassing now. For goodness sake, so many committees discussing so much irrelevant rubbish. It's still the Andy & Wendy Show though with hardly a look-in from anyone else sitting there. Andy is such a control freak and Wendy just sits there waffling on and on trying to make up her mind and remember what it is she's actually trying to say (another Joe Biden in the making). So unprofessional and ridiculous. Oh and one other thing, when Andy says there are ONLY 10 councillors who are members of a political party (Labour Party) as if that's not many, 10 out of 20 fully paid up political party members that is, I think that's a lot. I mean how many people are actually political party members? I don't know any that I can think of. So 10 out of 20 is huge because the other 9 "independents" will also have political leanings just not fully paid up members of a political party just like most people aren't.

Maybe the UK should switch back to the horse and cart. Seems the country is now overrun by a bunch of totalitarian dunces that will make you life as miserable as they can make it.

more pollution not less we have it in wales it is a joke

20 mph has it's place but everyone has seen how far it can go in Wales. At some point we need to realise that to function as a society we need to balance risk and the ability to actually do things. I would have thought after the recent pandemic we learnt that but it seems not. You will have zero accidents if you ban cars, lorries, buses. When they impose 20 mph across the board in 30 mph zones and we have reduced accidents then what then that level becomes unacceptable. It is driving standards that would reduce it far more as there is a 20 mph zone near me that very few obey as it is never monitored. We live in a world of banning everything not of telling people to behave better. Just drive sensibly and be courteous that will save lives and money.

i live in a small town in the middle of the usa and the speed limit is 20 mph. there are no traffic lights and there are almost no accidents. i grew up in a big city and driving in my town is like driving on a big shopping mall parking lot. there is no traffic but it is a very small town. i have no problem driving 20 and nobody else seems to mind either.

The reason they’re doing this is to make driving so unpleasant that people don’t bother. That gets them to their desired goal of no private car ownership.

Get an audio engineer in there oh my god

Well said. Besides the misleading presentation, don't we have enough traffic problems in this town already? Wales tried this--they had to scrap the scheme.

Parks and Open Spaces Sub-Committee 16th July #chairgate is back lol AGENDA 16. To appoint the Chair of the Parks and Open Spaces Sub-Committee

You're spot on as usual with regards to Wendy Brooks being absolutely clueless, she just doesn't understand planning law at all despite considering herself to be an expert! Secondly, as you say, mental health is not a material consideration so why are they all wasting so much time discussing it? Have they not got homes to go to? As well as mental health being irrelevant so is wellbeing, racism etc etc. And finally, they all seem much more pre-occupied and concerned about potential asylum seekers' accommodation than they do about existing residents, who actually already live here, probably all their lives whose opinions seem to count for almost nothing! The world has gone mad and Lowestoft Town Council is far too woke and political and spends way too much time discussing things that are completely out of their remit! I wish they would leave their political views and aspirations at home and get on with representing the residents of Lowestoft, which is what they're there for.

Allotments Sub-Committee ''meeting'' was funny only the two office staff was in the room no one turned up at all

It's a shame some of this lot don't get booted out when there's a change in local governance. Instead we're stuck with some utter cretins *ahemm... Wendy* with agendas, a disgusting lack of awareness and knowledge, who stifle progress, the process and use their vote to cause chaos. She needs to go.