Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Haringey Council planning to increase number of Finsbury Park concerts
Just wanted to alert residents to the fact that Haringey Council are planning to increase the number of Finsbury Park concerts.
The proposal was revealed in recent budget papers. There has been no consultation with councillors who believe that park users and residents who live near the park should be consulted over the events which take up large parts of the park and can be very disruptive. The disruptive often prevents families using their local park and the park itself is left churned up and in a terrible state
Currently events are limited to 5 days a year, but the council has revealed it wants to rip up this agreement to raise a further £85,000 from commercial event managers. The news comes on top of a recent decision by the licensing committee to increase the crowd capacity at events in the park by 25% from 40,000 to 50,000.
The noise, disruption and the loss of park space during weekends and school holidays as well as damage to the park itself are problems that have been associated with the concerts for some time.
I’d be very interested to have residents views on this either here or by email at Karen.alexander.haringeylibdems@gmail.com
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Karen, thanks for raising this again - FYI, it was also discussed about a month ago here.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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I'm keen for more concerts locally... but would prefer they were at Alexandra Palace.
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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Is there a massive impact on the park as most of the park is open when there are concerts, festivals and events? Events only usually take up about 10% of the parks space.
There is also quite an early curfew, I think 9.30, 10pm at the latest. The stage is situated so most of the noise heads north into the park rather than out of it.
This shambolic government have cut so much funding to LA that I am all for trying to fill that deficit with other capital raising ideas.I don't live on the parametre so maybe it's those that need to be consulted but I have no major objections unless it does become every weekend.
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Permalink Reply by Madeline on
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Five days setting up, then the concert for however many days, then five days taking it all down. That adds up to a significant amount of time that most of the open area of the park is out of bounds for normal park use, per concert throughout the summer. That piece of park is right behind my house and I can tell you it's very noisy and way past 9.30 or 10pm. Then there's the crowds and mess in these surrounding streets that we have to tolerate as well. Nobody has asked us, as residents, what we think and even if they did I believe they would just ignore us anyway. Money talks louder than we do.
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