Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
FIVE more years of Events in Finsbury Park?
HARINGEY Council prepares to commit to another 5-year
commercial exploitation deal for Events in Finsbury Park:
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At the Cabinet Member Signing at 1PM this Thursday, Cabinet Member Arkell or a substitute will lock the council into another half-decade deal with Festival Republic, the UK subsidiary of US giant global live-music monopoly, Live Nation.
The public are not ordinarily allowed into these little meetings, but at Agenda item seven, this is a specific exclusion (link above):
"Exclusion of Press & Public"
Just before item eight:
This EXEMPT item may discuss how the council will deal with the recent ruling in the High Court case involving Brockwell Park and how they will get around it.
For 11 years, intense and damaging commercial exploitation of Finsbury Park has been council Majority Group policy.
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Permalink Reply by Konrad B
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One thing that concerns me is that according to the cabinet paper, paragraph 6.41 etc. "officers sent details of the applications to 38 external stakeholder groups by e-mail dated 13 January 2026" .... "Of the list of consultees, set out at Appendix 1 none provided any form of response to the event notifications."
Were all the consultees asleep even the Friends of Finsbury Park? What's the point of the Friends if on this important matter they don't ensure that the Friends policy of opposition to major events is put before the Cabinet and recorded in the Council minutes. So now the Council can say the Friends were consulted but raised no objections!
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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KONRAD, the information you've seen from the council is not necessarily accurate. The Friends of Finsbury Park are on the case. Those attending tonight's LCSP meeting are likely to learn more.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson
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In what way is it inaccurate? The Friends group appears in the list of consultees at appendix 1. Is that not accurate?
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