Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Finsbury Park - Adobe festival excessive noise levels
If anyone is experiencing excessive noise disturbance from the Adobe festival in Finsbury Park, suggest reporting it on Haringey's report it noise form - apparently they recognise there are growing no. of complaints from this area and are monitoring levels at the park.
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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10pm is too late especially as it started in the morning. 11 hours of constant noise is too much, not just for kids but as adults who need some rest sometime and sleep. I'd like to know what the exact benefits as a resident I'm getting from these constant private events. I won't call them festivals as they then sound like nice, local, fun things.
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Permalink Reply by Graham Charnock on
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They make money for the council which it then supposedly uses to improve local facilities, like redesigning Wightman Road. You are allowed to laugh riotously at this point.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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All profits from Finsbury Park events have to be spent on Finsbury Park itself since the Friends of Finsbury Park court case.
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Thanks Hugh. I'll look forward to that expenditure then and hope that there are some periods next summer that are gig-free so we can full use of the park and enjoy it.
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Why then are they not spending them on sound baffle fences for use at events like these?
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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on
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Sound baffle fences only work on motorways and high-speed railways where the sound is produced at ground level and very close to the baffle fence.
The sound production in Finsbury Park doesn't fit that model and 50-foot fences (imagine!!) would still be an insufficient barrier. Sorry!
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Permalink Reply by KP on
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Totally agree Ruth!!! It's not actually just people with kids who need to get to bed it's the rest of us as well who might actually not want to have put up with the thumping the entire day. This one was way too loud and I haven't objected to any of the other concerts even though I dislike the way the park is made unusable for long periods over the summer
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Thanks KP, this one was the worst I've experienced. Like you dislike the way the park is largely out of bounds for long periods over the summer and the general disruption to travel etc.
But I've learnt to grin and bear it over the year but Sunday's OTT event was way beyond what we should have to put up with. Too much. The balance has been lost.
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Just to add that even here in Glenwood (which must be well over a mile and quarter away from the festival) the sound was very audible all weekend, especially on Sunday, when the constantly thumping bass was almost tangible through vibration. Mercifully this wasn't anything like as bad for me as for those living right next to the park, but it seems the balance between the council's desperation for revenue and the needs of residents for peace and quiet enjoyment of their homes and area has gone too far in the wrong direction. If neighbours were causing the same amount of noise disturbance to other residents there'd be ample justification for the council to intervene, so why don't the same rules apply when it's the council itself that's licensing the event?
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Agree. And there were terrible vibrations on Sunday just sitting on my sofa. I couldn't get any respite in any room of my flat and guess it was the same for thousands of others in the area.
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