M32 motorway award that year, adding that the M32 had created a "concrete divide" between Eastville, St Paul's and Easton. Local residents have complained about the noise on the M32. A report by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs showed that traffic noise can be as loud as 75 decibels in neighbouring estates. In 2014, a petition was created to campaign Bristol City Council to install quieter road surfaces and noise barriers along the motorway. In 2011, a council gardening scheme created a horticultural landscape next to the southern end of the M32. The project included planting of red poppies,
HMS Cottesmore (M32) Thales was the prime contractor to upgrade the vessels with a technologically advanced minehunting system including the hull-mounted Sonar 2193 system, propulsion, command and control systems, and mine disposal systems. HMS Cottesmore (M32) HMS "Cottesmore" was a of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1982 and converted in 1997 into a patrol vessel. The ship was declared surplus to requirement and put on the MoD list for disposal in 2004. In 2008 she was bought by Lithuania, along with . Lieutenant Commander Prince Andrew, Duke of York commanded "Cottesmore" from April 1993 until November 1994. She was decommissioned by the