When all the work has gone and all the cars come off the road cos theres no work to go to and all the pubs close,the black country will be nice and quiet won’t it.

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When I was a kid earning pin money back in the 1960s I could name nearly every employer as nothing like respecting present health and security rules.And all for different reasons.I have joked before here about the deaf ears elsewhere in the European Union.I found visual proof on last week’s French tv programme “Thalassa” concerning the absence of lifejackets on gondolas in Venice ! In fact, worse than that,the Vigili del fuoco (Fire Brigade) don’t wear them either.During the Feast of the Redemptor out on the water the town also attempted,with no success whatsoever,to ban alcohol ! Putting on electric switches flooded by water from the cut (Brierley Hill) with planks was the past.Venice is the present.As for jobs in the West Midlands : try making safety belts for swings !

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Here is Sandwell Council’s full response to this story:

Sandwell Council’s cabinet member for neighbourhoods and housing Cllr Mahboob Hussain said:

“This was not a planning issue; this was a noise nuisance issue involving environmental health.

“Sandwell Council’s planning committee granted permission for Enviromise to operate this tyre recycling venture with clear conditions on noise, following talks with the company’s noise consultants and the council’s noise experts in environmental health.

“Enviromise’s consultants’ report indicated that the machinery was capable of operating at acceptable noise levels.

“Conditions were therefore put in place to ensure the business could exist without upsetting its neighbours.

“It is unfortunate that when the business began operating, our environmental health team received complaints about noise. This noise was much louder than predicted and exceeded the levels specified by the planning consent.

“This noise was investigated and we found it constituted a statutory nuisance.

“An abatement notice was issued requiring the operators to reduce the noise within two months. The company then decided to relocate.

“The planning committee thought carefully about granting the permission and took into consideration the objections of 16 residents living nearby.

“It is unfortunate that the business was not able to operate within these limits, however, we do have to balance the needs of the existing community with that of a new business with potential to cause noise nuisance.

“The delays in the planning process were a consequence of the time it took for the company to agree acceptable noise limits.”

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Councillor Mahboob Hussain is only interested in penalising people!!!! Unless he can wield power over people and financially penalise them he isn’t interested in doing anything else.

He isn’t interested in creating work for local people; the only time Councillor Mahboob Hussain wants to get involved in anything is when he can bring down the big stick on Sandwell residents to keep them in line.

He was the one who wanted to have spy camera cars parked outside schools to fine parents who parked there, see : “SANDWELL COUNCIL HAD DRAWN UP PLANS TO BUY OR LEASE A £15,000 VEHICLE” “NEIGHBOURHOODS CHIEF COUNCILLOR MAHBOOB HUSSAIN SAID THERE HAD BEEN A COURT CASE INVOLVING ANOTHER LOCAL AUTHORITY WHICH HAD NOT PUT UP THE APPROPRIATE SIGNS AND HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN LEGAL ACTION” so once he realised he couldn’t raise money from the fines it would have generated, he lost interest in children’s safety around schools.

Recently Sandwell Council defended a fine imposed on a young mum, Vanessa Miss Kelly, for dropping bread, claiming it attracts rats, her son was feeding the ducks when a warden issued her with a £75 fixed penalty ticket.

“COUNCILLOR MAHBOOB HUSSAIN, THE COUNCIL’S NEIGHBOURHOOD BOSS DEFENDED THE DECISION TO PROSECUTE PEOPLE FEEDING DUCKS AND BIRDS, SAYING RESIDENTS HAD BEEN MADE AWARE OF THE COUNCIL’S STANCE” I have been there, there were no signs stipulating it was an offence to feed wildlife!!!!!!

2 minutes walk away is Devonshire Road, now see this notice taken from the Councils own website, “AFTER SUFFERING FROM MONTHS OF PROBLEMS WITH BLACK BIN BAGS AND FRIDGES BEING DUMPED IN THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD, PEOPLE LIVING IN DEVONSHIRE ROAD, SMETHWICK, ASKED THE COUNCIL FOR HELP”

“RESIDENTS HAD BEEN CLEARING UP THE RUBBISH ON A REGULAR BASIS, BUT THE PROBLEM WAS STILL ATTRACTING RATS TO THE AREA”

“COUNCILLOR MAHOOB HUSSAIN, SANDWELL COUNCIL’S CABINET MEMBER FOR NEIGHBOURHOODS AND HOUSING, SAID: “FLY-TIPPING COSTS THE COUNCIL AROUND £200,000 A YEAR AND IS SOMETHING WE TAKE VERY SERIOUSLY” so I think it’s obvious that this young mom was seen as an easy target for COUNCILLOR MAHOOB HUSSAIN, strange the wardens couldn’t issue fines on the people depositing “BLACK BIN BAGS AND FRIDGES” in the area, after all it was happening “ON A REGULAR BASIS”

Sandwell Labour Council don’t see their job as supplying services to the community, they are just there to punish residents at every opportunity.

Jim of Bearwood.

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Jim-I have never really had any problems with the council. Had our houses done up outside through a sandwell grant system. We had a noise problem with a pub and they sorted that out for us. Granted that took a while to get the evidence, but they solved the problem in the end.

It seems to me that this company bought on their own problems by not abiding by the noise regulations. Noise problems are no fun if you live next to these places-even if they do create jobs for people-try it sometime JIM….I have! I do agree about some of the stupid red tape like feeding the ducks!

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WORKED next to one of these sites for about 5yrs,noise,dust,vermin were a major problem.its alright having a moan at the council when its not your quality life and health thats being made to suffer!!

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