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June 23, 2008
Complaints of Bell Rings Causes Alarm
by Rachael Grant
Bell ringing could be a thing of the past if complaints to Suffolk Coastal District Council in England have their way.
There have since been reports of investigations by environmental health officers.
When asked to comment, the council said they had no choice but to investigate the complaints.
Mark Pritchard, a conservative MP representing The Wreckin in Shropshire, is trying to fight to stop the protests against the bell ringing, and vows to do what he can to keep the five century old tradition alive.
Rev, Nigel Hartley, the vicar of the church in question, St Peter and Paul’s, says that the implications, if this is taken seriously, will be widespread.
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You may perhaps be well served by the following which is a press release issued by Suffolk Coastal on June 23.
Suffolk Coastal has confirmed that it has never had any intention of preventing the bells being rung at St Peter and St Paul’s Church in Aldeburgh.
The Council received a call last November from a resident raising concerns about the bells, apparently following a similar request being made to the Church’s vicar, and now it is reported that a petition has recently been circulating in the town.
It appears that the issue surrounds three-hour long practice sessions which occur on the second Sunday afternoon every month except August and the sound of the bells is disturbing some of the residents when they are in their gardens. The Council understands that a request has been made to the Church to reschedule two of these practice sessions either to a different day of the week, or moved to avoid the Sunday afternoons in June and July.
Officers from the Council’s environmental protection team have met with the Church’s vicar and discussed this issue and it was hoped that some compromise could be found.
“Our environmental protection team has concluded that there is no reason on noise nuisance grounds to take any action to restrict the number of occasions that the bells are currently rung at Aldeburgh,” said Cllr Andrew Nunn, Cabinet Member for the Green Environment.
“Our considered view is that there are no grounds for us to intervene at present and we had hoped that a compromise could by now have been found between both sides. I would still encourage the Parochial Church Council (PCC) to see if they can somehow broker a solution to this increasingly discordant debate about what is a local issue among long-standing Aldeburgh residents that has been blown up into a national media circus,” added Cllr Nunn.
It should perhaps be emphasised that, contrary to some reports in the media prompted by a press release issued by the Diocese’s Office on June 12, there has never been a request to Suffolk Coastal to silence the bells permanently. It is understood that the PCC is due to meet this Wednesday, June 25.