Is there any info about revenue streams post restoration. I would have expected nearly all the income would have been from the conference/wedding space in the stables, which they have apparently ditched. I know that there was some concern its use might clash with expanding the use of the park as a mega events venue.
"The Hall will be hired out to help pay back the investment. Total income from wedding hire is expected to rise from £57,000 in year 1 of the project to £171,500 by year 5. The Council predicts that venue hire in total rises to £248,000 by year 5. Council officers are expecting income from all sources will grow to £382,400 by year 5."
That's 250K they'll presumably make up by putting on more security fenced mega events.
I guess it can happen - particularly urinating - but the way the festival was set up last year there was no real opportunity as routes out are fenced off and stewards directing right to train station & bus stops. Seems an overblown nimby argument tbh.
I've seen it happen once by Clapham Common. It wasn't a fenced festival, but there was some sort of event going on. A young woman, with a friend to keep watch, went into one of the gardens by the Common and had a shit. She wasn't particularly secretive about it.
how did you know she was having a shit? Did you time the act and decide that it had to be a number 2, or did you go and check the mucky aftermath?
I was walking past on the street. It was hard not to see what she was doing.
The stables were going to be new public toilets and offices. The wedding/event space is in the mostly roofed-over courtyard between the stables and the house.
Big signs will be erected saying "PLEASE TAKE YOUR EXCREMENT HOME".I don't know what this means for the toilets now. Are they really going to be left in their current state?
So you think they're just party poo-pers?
I think that the more they say 'revellers' shit in their gardens the less people and authorities take it seriously. If they really want to stop a music festival from happening near their home, they ought to think of something a bit more original and believable.
Nope.
Nope. There are way more important things they could spend it on.
www.lambeth.gov.uk
Braying joggers?
This.
Lambeth ( and most councils ) have been fucked by central government funding cuts to over the last 12 years, the tories must love it when lefties bash labour councils for doing things to raise cash.
Lambeth's budget challenge
Lambeth has been making huge savings since the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 and imposed a 50% cut in our core funding. To balance the books, between 2010 and 2018 we’ll have had to make savings of more than £200 million.
“Lambeth has been making huge savings since the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 and imposed a 50% cut in our core funding. To balance the books, between 2010 and 2018 we’ll have had to make savings of more than £200 million.“
I think much is made of closing part of the park - it doesn’t take away any facilities except one football pitch and is the least interesting part of the park imo. Plenty still open. Think people that live close to the park and it frequently should be a bit more appreciative that they get to use it so much. Plenty in London do not have such a luxury.
It's a massive disruption. Footpaths are closed. Toilets are locked. The fencing clutter is there for weeks.
Plenty in Lambeth don’t have such easy access to parks - think those living close take the privilege too much for granted and through their toys out of the pram for some slight inconvenience that brings in money to the council and host amazing line ups. Much better to work with the council on how these can be hosted reasonably rather than just opposing the very idea of it.
What about the people who live on the edge of the park? It's not just well off Herne Hillians, Cressingham residents get all the disruption for weeks.
Agreed, there is still plenty of park to use if people so wish. If the sight of a fence and happy people on the way to a festival in the other half of the park is that traumatising, perhaps it might be an idea to mix things up a bit for a few days and go to Clapham Common to walk the dog.
