Tags for Forum Posts: finsbury park, live nation
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.
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.
Wow! That feels incredibly libellous. Admin needs to look at that.
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.
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.
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:
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!
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