Nearly all of the homes on the Wilford side of Wilford embankment, about 100, were built when the Great Central railway route was thriving with steam locomotion. Thus any suggestion that the noise or speed of the trams in the same location will be insufferable for local residents is not credible.
The fact that the Compton Acres housing estate was built several years after the railway closed in 1974 does not negate the point. At present there is intermittent road traffic noise from Ruddington Lane, Compton Acres Road and Rugby Road. Wilford Lane traffic noise is currently worse than the railway ever was, and will certainly get worse still if we don’t have atram network for Nottingham.
The trams will be much quieter than the old steam trains ever were, and the landscaping NET will provide will minimise the little noise the trams make, and visually screen them, to safeguard the amenity of the people living adjacent.
