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Monton Village Festival is ON again this year

Monton Village Community Association is holding it's Festival this year on Saturday 3rd July. ...Read more

MVCA backing NO to Eco Park

MVCA canvassed registered members and the outcome was a NO vote for the Eco Park....Read more

Residents say NO to Eco Park Application

Angry residents attended a meeting at the Monton House Hotel on 25th January and clashed with developers Sky Properties over the proposed Green Lane Eco Park. ...Read more
BBC News | England | Manchester | UK Edition Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:19:17 GMT

Forthcoming Events

13 February  

Valentines Cabaret
3 course Carvery, Monton House Hotel,

28 February  

Famous Family Fun Days
Carvery Lunch, Childrens Entertainment, Monton House Hotel,


Support your local shops

IVY FLOWERS AND DELICATESSEN

Ivy Flowers

226 Monton Road
Monton
0161 281 3456

ivyflowers@hotmail.com

FLORISTRY - David is one of Manchester’s best known florists specialising in exotic flowers and he will take pleasure in discussing your requirements for any occasion.
DELICATESSEN - Quality goods, locally sourced where possible, including fresh meat & dairy products, olives and preserves. We will have a range of snacks and bake it yourself pizzas. (we can even bake them on request!)our instore artisan bakery produces a range of bread using only stoneground flours which are additive free.Come and chat with us if you want anything special! We will be holding bread workshops in the New Year
FRUIT & VEGETABLES - from local producers and from Smithfield Market.They are fresh, and competitively priced.
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Latest Bulletin Board messages

The opinions expressed here are those of the writers and not those of the MVCA who provide this forum so that everyone has the opportunity to discuss matters important to Monton
Do you have laminate floors and no carpets?
Kevin  (06 February 2010)

Then maybe you should read this article :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8502143.stm

Especially if you live in one of Monton's many little blocks of flats, most of which have either been converted from old detached Victorian houses or are modern custom built (like Montonfields, Montonmill, etc) before the 1997 building regulations concerning limitation of sound transmission between adjacent flats was enforced - and that's where you could be caught out!

It would seem that many hundreds of pounds worth of audio gear was seized from each home due to excessive noise pollution - all due to quite simply the fact that the volume control was always turned up far too high!

Or was it really turned up too high? Modern (contemporary minimalist) living dictates that your lounge should only contain a large-screen TV with speakers and a thunderbass unit as it's focus, along with a single (leather??) sofa and nothing else, and the 'must have' laminate flooring.

There's the problem - Laminate Floor Covering!

It allows and actually distributes all sounds from your home into your neighbours homes at the same volume from whence it came from. Hence I would guess it is actually the source of most of these complaints. (And laminate floors are hardly practical either as the dust accumulation in your home on them is equal to that of having carpets).

I read recently on the Internet comments that 'laminate flooring looks so cold and uninviting', and 'the only good thing about laminate flooring is that it provides the perfect surface upon which to lay a decent carpet with decent underlay', and 'having laid a cheap foambacked carpet on top of our lounge laminated floor it has not only got rid of that annoying echo but has also reduced the sounds coming up from the flat below'.

So if you recently ripped up your carpets and laid laminate flooring, beware! It could easily lead to prosecution on more than one front!
Green Lane Eco- Park /Eco-Dump?
Colin  (05 February 2010)

Nice one, Dan! We practiced our faces beforehand!

tatto shop
paul  (01 February 2010)

great to have the tattoo shop on monton road
Green Lane Eco- Park /Eco-Dump?
steve  (29 January 2010)

Here's the limp response from the Bridgewater canal project manager.

Everyone email her and protest against the Dump and copy Hazel Blears in too !

Dear Steve,

Thanks for the email, we're aware of the proposals. At the moment it is a live planning application and is going through the formal planning process, with planning panel discussing the application in the near future. We will wait for the results of this and incorporate the outcome.

Many thanks,

Toria Buzza,
Senior Project Officer,
Salford City Council

0161 793 2132

________________________________
From: Stephen
Sent: 21 January 2010 10:54
To: hazel.blears@communities.gsi.gov.uk; Buzza, Victoria
Cc: MP Hazel Blears
Subject: Monton urban regeneration plans

Victoria,

Surely the ECO dump proposed for planning permission at Green Lane totally contradicts all the brilliant proposals set out by Salford council

http://www.salford.gov.uk/i/Monton_plan.pdf

http://www.salford.gov.uk/draftareaplans.htm



Kind Regards,
Steve

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