Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Finsbury Park event disruption 2025
I was wondering if anyone has any information, dates specifically when areas of the park will be closed this year for the festivals?
I've emailed Haringey Event Management with no reply and the Haringey website has outdated 2024 information only
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Permalink Reply by Konrad B on
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Festival Republic on-site in the park from Wednesday 25 June to Friday 18 July
https://www.festivalrepublic.com/finsbury-park-residents-information/
Krankbrother on-site from Thursday 24 July to Friday 15 August
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Permalink Reply by Wawicka
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Thanks Konrad, from the links you sent I can see the build in/out & events are:
Wednesday 25 June to Friday 18 July
I'm still wondering what specific areas will be closed and when.
Tennis/skate area/amphitheatre availability info isn't available and accessible on any of the websites.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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HARINGEY council's big corporate customer (Festival Republic/Live Nation) are distributing their leaflet to some residents, titled "LOCAL COMMUNITY INFORMATION".
This "Residents Letter" may appear later on the council customer's website.
Their map shows the tennis courts remaining open, although usage falls off over their "Events Season", because of the Haringey Council-approved noise-levels.
The original, older part of the skate area is also shown as open, but the large new skate plaza will be closed. This is the part that the community contributed £50,000 towards via The Friends of Finsbury Park.
Skaters are not particularly heavy, but the new plaza was built stronger than it needed to be otherwise (and more costly), because the council required it to bear the weight of their Events Season customer's trucks and equipment. So that will be closed to skaters at the height of summer.
The amphitheatre (the Richard Hope Space) is shown as open.
However, as with previous council-hires, it will be surrounded by a nine-foot high steel wall. This has an oppressive look and feel. This wall—combined with the narrow entrance that is again likely to be controlled by stewards or private security guards—gives an impression more prison facility than public park.
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Permalink Reply by Joanna on
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I know that ParkRun is on for the next 2 Saturdays before a 7 week hiatus due to the events :/
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DISRUPTION within the park—from the council's bloated commercial hires—will be familiar to regular users of our park, such as ParkRun.
However—and possibly for the first time—the council has obliquely acknowledged the disruption without the park: traffic.
Without mentioning the closure of a TfL Red Route and the disruption to bus services inside and outside the Borough, the council admitted to "frequency and complexity of events", leading to "challenges".
Finsbury Park CPZ
This is unusual, as the council normally admits to no disadvantages and typically disregards the long list of drawbacks.
For their Events Season, the council does exhibit leadership (in the wrong direction). The council leader is a fan of Festival Republic's Wireless. in the past, she has several times publicly endorsed Grime music in particular ("working class struggle"). Not every resident in Hackney, Haringey and Islington are on the same page as Cllr Ahmet's musical taste, but many are obliged to hear it: whether or not they want to.
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Thank you Clive,
I was looking for a map of available spaces, can you share a link?
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Not yet; if, as I would expect, the council's customer reproduces their leaflet then a map should appear on the Festival Republic website on the link above.
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From the Festival Republic resident information leaflet
The perimeter of the event ground is shown as a black line i.e the wall, and parallel to this is a secondary mesh fence which is about a couple of meters from the wall. However when the wall gets to the play areas (nos. 9 & 10 on the plan) the mesh fence doesn’t follow the wall instead it follows the path so that the play areas are completely enclosed though gates are provided.
See the picture of one of the play areas from last year - not very welcoming.
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Last year I asked Haringey Council (Sarah Jones - Events & Partnerships Manager) why the play areas had been fenced off by Festival Republic when the plan in the Festival Republic information leaflet clearly shows that this area does not come within the perimeter fencing. The reply was:
"Although fencing is going up around the play areas, as it has done in previous years, public access is and will continue to be maintained. I have just walked past there, 10 minutes ago, and all play areas are open and being used.”Note - no explanation as to why the play areas were fenced off, so I then asked Ms Jones:"If there are to be no restrictions what is the purpose of the fencing? The fact that there is fencing means that it is there to keep people out, why else put it up."Why fence in the play areas, the fencing should follow the line of the green wall, why is this not being done?"Is fencing of these play areas specified in the rental contract? If not, why are Haringey Council allowing it? If the contract does allow for this fencing why is the information provided by Festival Republic misleading, I suppose that to show the real site perimeter i.e. including the fenced off of play areas, might be bad PR.”NO REPLY
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Krankbrother
The only plan that I have seen for Krankbrother is that given in their licence variation application for the 2024 event. This plan didn’t show the increase in size so I added this in - the yellow line - based on my observations. The photo shows the wall very near the path next to the running track as in my version of the plan.
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KONRAD!
Haringey Council has now posted an honest statement about their Events hires.
It does not acknowledge the true extent of the impact of their Events programme and it misleads in parts, but at least there is truth in the title.
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