Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Finsbury Park - after Live Nation 2024
Live Nation has been and gone and left behind considerable damage to Finsbury Park - see the pictures taken this morning.
Tags for Forum Posts: finsbury park, live nation
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Konrad B
-
On Sunday I emailed (with pictures) the council leader Peray Ahmet; the cabinet member for culture and leisure Emily Arkell; five local ward councillors and two council officials. Waiting for a response.
-
Permalink Reply by JamesN
-
History suggests that if you'd emailed invitations to lunch, sporting or cultural events, or better still a job offers, you might get a more timely and satisfying response. One of David Lammy's few virtues is that he keeps it simple by just taking cash.
-
Permalink Reply by KP
-
The park is being ruined for all those who like to sit around in there in the Summer. Worth informing Friends of Finsbury Park as well as the council as they have been quite vocal about the damage these events are doing to the park. It gets worse every year
-
-
I'm certain those in Haringey council will do nothing. It brings in large amounts money to the council.
Money talks, citizen concerns about their green spaces is less than secondary, unfortunately.
-
-
Time for direct action. Protests, disruption of event set up and operation. Put their profits at risk and they might go elsewhere.
-
-
Sadly I think you're right Doodle. All these years living here and I can't see any attempt by Haringey Council to attempt to improve the quality of life for most of the citizens. It's a depressing state of affairs
-
-
It would be very hard to disrupt the events Gordon. When the Wireless festival was on the park was circled by more police than I have ever seen around here!!! It looked more like a prison than a park
-
Permalink Reply by Giovanna iozzi
-
PLEASE DO send your pictures to the following people. The friends of Finsbury Park are appalled by this, I'm on the committee.
All useful contacts here. A twitter thread my other group Haringey Tree Protectors did here too: https://x.com/JustPlaneNews/status/1816479971147235344
-
-
Slight error - if complaining about Live Nation / Festival Republic their email address is
FinsburyPark.residents@festivalrepublic.com
not the Krankbrother address given above.
-
Permalink Reply by EMcB
-
Agreed that this is unacceptable and upsetting. I wasn't as informed about the events this July (see my first point below), but not sure if other neighbours had the same observations? I can't find any retrospective information on the council's website:
- This year no letter drop happened (on my road anyway), informing us of timings, access routes, who to call for noise/disruption etc
- Access to the newly improved Skate Plaza was severely cut off, I thought it was meant to remain fully open?
- Access via Seven Sisters Road Gate along the railway to Oxford Road gate and further to Hornsey Gate was once again highly hazardous and not compliant with DDA best practice - especially after the heavy rain, it was nearly impassable on wheels. As a public right of way this is questionable unless we're expected to take an inconvenient - and by bicycle dangerous - detour around to enter via the path alongside the cycle storage?
- Blind corners created by the high fencing was also an issue. As was the morning someone with dogs decided to verbally abuse anyone cycling at a slow and safe pace giving as much space as possible (i.e slow enough to be stopped by this person to be shouted at) - the problem was really that everyone had been squeezed into a narrow strip, with little viable alternative
If I recall correctly, Tough Mudder was unceremoniously barred from FP for causing similar type of damage. Whilst this was a separate issue, it possibly could have been better managed as a much smaller event to minimise damage and still enable a one day, small scale charity event to happen? One that didn't block off the majority of the park for weeks with high security fencing and attendant H&S, amenity access and safety problems...? As it was, outraged letters and so on about Tough Mudder were out of proportion with the usual lacklustre council response to the damage and disruption caused by much larger scale music festivals.
On the plus side, as a regular cycle commuter through the park, I was pleased last winter to see lighting installed for part of the way. When it's switched on, that is. It was transformative - 6pm on a winter's evening would still have people out exercising, walking dogs etc., in better lit and safer conditions. Small steps!
© 2024 Created by Hugh.
Powered by
