After repeated conversations and “thousands” of reports to the company and the Hastings District Council about what they say are “multiple breaches of compliance”, the couple feel as though they’re getting nowhere.
From mediation to noise investigations and factory tours, the couple have felt on many occasions that they were near a resolution. But then the staff member they were communicating with would resign or go on annual leave, and the process would start from scratch.
Catherine Reeves described the noise as a “loud humming vibration”, most likely coming from the factory's fans, accompanied by other noises of the plant’s machinery and the coming and goings of different vehicles.