The company that put up a controversial fence on Mistley Quay in September is now preventing the erection of another fence on the quay.

Last week Gladedale Homes began putting up a metal fence along the perimeter of its Maltings waterside development. But workers from Trent Wharfage parked one of the company's lorries in its path, and blockaded the rest of the planned route with bags of granite. Gladedale workers have now abandoned work at the site.

The Gladedale fence has planning permission and, according to residents, is long overdue.

In September local people formed action group Free the Quay to prevent the erection of Trent Wharfage's fence along the quayside, which would have ended hundreds of years of public access to and from the water at this point.

Free the Quay held off the completion of the fence for three weeks with a blockade of vehicles and other protests. While Trent Wharfage has not yet come to see our point of view on the fence, it seems they are certainly taking note of our techniques.