The Jericho Residents’ Association

The J.R.A.meets every fortnight on Wednesdays at the Centre.The last meeting was last week when the day wSs",in fact,changed to fit in with the Oxford City Council's Public Meeting to discuss Lucy's Factory and the noise pollution and fallout therefrom. The meeting was packed,-the yellow room held from 70-100 people, Cllr. John Power held the Chair for Mr.Garrod,Chief Environmental Health Officer for Oxford City Council;Mr.Lizba,Planning Officer;a City Council lawyer.Mr.Dick from Lucys and Mr.Dick's assistant. Mr.Garrod was,unfortunately,conciliatory,but then he doesn't live around here so his car remains spotless and so does his laundry. Mr.Dick said Lucy's was doing eveything possible to minimise nuisances but then if your working day begins at 6.30am heavy lorries moving around at that time don't appear as nuisances. Lucy's have caused Jericho so much bother that wouldn't it be simpler for all concerned if the factory were resited in an industrial estate somewhere.Think how clean the canal would be! How much cleaner the air(if we could also control emissions from the hospital)!How quiet it would be and we shouldn't have to worry so much about any more rows of houses being pulled down to build lucrative blocks of flats.Ed.