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Friends of Finsbury Park petition about concerts policy
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Permalink Reply by Pat on
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I use our park 3-4 times a week. Having concerts for a couple of weeks out of 52 is no great hardship if our park is being used to raise revenue. Most people enjoy them and it's a good use of resources in a time when budget cuts are making the council look at cutting vital services such as children's centres.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Mags, first, the period of "a couple of weeks" that you mention, is the length of time for the build-up and the take-down (one week each) only, without counting the period of the big events.
The customers who pay £75 a head clearly enjoy the park and music, but the same cannot be said for most local residents.
Most people enjoy them
I'm not sure what this assertion is based on. The Friends of Finsbury Park opposes the Council Cabinet Concerts policy and we are currently signing up a dozen new members a day via the web capture field.
The FoFP – a voluntary outfit – can barely keep up and we're expecting an influx of members during and after the big noise. The loud music is there whether people enjoy them or not.
On the Wednesday FoFP walkabout, I learnt from a Seven Sisters Road resident of an incident of assault by a Live Nation security guard. The resident had remonstrated about certain activity by the small-town assemblers. He has filed a complaint with the police and it has been passed on to Live Nation.
If there are any more incidents of assault by Live National guards, as well as reporting to the authorities, please tell the Friends of Finsbury Park.
There is visible wear on our park already, including damage to trees and a gouged part of the road near the tennis courts.
In the medium term, there are larger threats to our public parks in the offing and its important this "good use of resources" is resisted before it leads to what you might see as an even better use: total sell-off or privatising.
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Permalink Reply by Junior Bennett on
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So you would rather there be no concerts at all in such a massive park?
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Junior: no, that's not the position of FoFP and never has been. We like small concerts and uses like the Fun Fair.
FoFP oppose the Council Major Events policy, agreed by their Cabinet in December 2013. That provided for a big expansion in numbers. Now, for up to 50,000 attendees. Though they can call for back-up, there'll be about 40 police officers on duty (all ranks). The authorities – including neighbouring Boroughs, can barely cope, although no official will admit to it publicly.
The park is not massive. Of the usable amenity space, Live Nation now control about half. The best, south-facing land is currently appropriated. What is left for the public is the steeper, north facing land and the non-amenity space of the lake, bowling green, running track.
The ball courts that Live Nation personnel call "the bone yard" are now three-quarters a car park and construction vehicle park, a staging and storage area – again, all denied to the public.
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Permalink Reply by Johanna on
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Is a copy of the council's major events policy available to view online?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Found this Joanna
http://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/Published/C00000128/M00006719/AI...$HaringeyOutdoorEventsPolicyAPPENDIXA2.doc.pdf
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This is really annoying! I can see the policy and copy the link but the link then won't open!
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It went to Cabinet on 1712/13 so you should be able to find it on the Haringey website in the reports and minutes for that meeting.
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Thanks- the policies are indeed at the bottom of this page http://www.minutes.haringey.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID=35723
Thought it would be useful for people to be able to read these in order to know a bit more about the policies in question. -
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Please supply me with a full poll of those against and for. I dislike the use of the term "our park". it's my park as well . I am a local resident and have been for over a decade. My association with the area goes even further back to when the park was a very dangerous place, especially at night. I have also enjoyed many concerts at the park. Currently, the building work has had very little impact on my use of the park, except for having to move to Downhills for tag rugby for a few weeks, which I do not find inconvenient. During the winter, the grass by Seven Sisters is torn up by the footballers, but it is a public park so we accept it unless you want to ban all fun from your park.
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Permalink Reply by snappy stephen on
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Stephen Rigg thinks it should be reviewed
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