Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
More Commercial Concerts Scheduled For Finsbury Park
FINSBURY Park faces another summer of noise, damage and disruption as a result of Haringey Council's policy of promoting large-scale commercial concerts in our Park.
Live Nation are already advertising a three-day 'Wireless Festival' scheduled to take place in Finsbury Park from 3rd-5th July.
They didn't even wait for the outcome of their Land Use Application to Haringey Council to be decided, such is their confidence in the outcome of the process.
The 2014 Wireless Festival occupied an unprecedentedly large swathe of the Park and enclosed the most popular areas behind high barriers for three weeks – at the height of summer.
Despite overwhelming opposition to their events policy, Haringey Council have resolutely ignored representations from Park user groups and community representatives. Regardless of other considerations, they seem determined to exact as much revenue as possible from these events, allowing a daily attendance of 49,999.
The damage wrought by 49,000 pairs of feet hammering the turf during the 2014 Wireless Festival, left the east of our Park looking like a large rodeo ring.
The damage caused to roads and paths is still unrepaired.
Haringey's parks should be primarily people's parks and not commercial parks.
In it's determination to market Finsbury Park as an asset to be sweated, Haringey Council further demonstrates it's poor custodianship of our parks and green spaces.
The Friends of Finsbury Park are campaigning for an end to damaging commercial events of this scale.
If you would like to join the Friends, please e-mail your name and address to
thefriendsoffinsburypark@gmail.com
Membership is free.
Haringey Councillor
Liberal Democrat Party
Tags for Forum Posts: finsbury park, finsbury park events, wireless festival
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Permalink Reply by Sarah on
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I'm not saying you should move. Just that for myself, that awful experience on the tube is the only experience I've had of these concerts so far.
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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Er.. did I miss something but do I have a grandson now? I never realised.
I loved the festivals we used to have in the Park. Local ones. Ones for wide and far but that were not commercial and were for a day or so. I've never been against festivals in Finsbury Park, I've been to masses, I'd go again if they were not such sell outs to mega capitalism and not much about the local people anymore. The fact that I've been assumed to be a grandmother sums it up that those who complain are all old and past it. Believe me, we are not! I can stay home, I work at home, but the noise and the disruption will still affect me, it cannot be avoided.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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Hi Ruth,
I received a standard email like that too. A few comments:
Your views and comments are very much valued
Sometimes PR statements are true; sadly in this case, there's no evidence for this. Conversely, there's evidence that our views and comments are worth nothing.
the Live Nation application to use Finsbury Park is still subject to agreement
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One interpretation for last week's promotional activity for the gig (included above) is that the de jure agreement is understood to be a mere formality, while a de facto understanding (a handshake?) is all important.
Another, less likely interpretation of this, is that Live Nation expected Parks to have signed the deal a while ago and that by selling tickets, Live Nation are not behaving unreasonably.
Who would spend promotional cash believing otherwise?(Note for [parks] diary: next time, schedule the sham consultation before promotional activity, otherwise it won't look right!)
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Permalink Reply by Madeline on
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Ah yes, that handshake. I went to a 'consultation' at the Civic Centre once that was discussing a Mean Fiddler application. I popped outside for a quick ciggy and overheard a conversation behind a closed door. It was something like the' Council bigwig thanking the MF bigwig for the meal last week and looking forward to flying over to'........ at this point security spotted me and I was escorted away.
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Aside: Behind Closed Doors
Interesting you should say that Madeline. Some years ago, I was looking for an Ally Pally Board meeting on the west side of Ally Pally after arriving early. I went up the usual corridor and couldn't find anyone in the room.
I retraced my steps and heard voices behind a side door. I opened it to find the whole "Trust" Board seated around a number of round tables covered in table-clothes and enjoying a slap-up hot meal, courtesy of the then General Manager – and the subject of the Walklate 2 Report.
The late Cllr. Pat Egan, a reforming Chairman, put an end to this (in)conspicuous extravagance. What goes on behind closed doors eh?
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Yes, I saw the adverts as well and smelt a rat. This is what is so annoying- a sham consultation but behind closed doors, a deal has been struck.
What happened to democracy? To politicians being accountable to their constituents? Where is our choice?
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