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Update:

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Ripping out a memorial bench without asking is well out of order.

Friends of Brockwell Park condemns ‘intolerable’ damage to park by Sunfall festival
 
Field Day all but confirmed for Finsbury Park.

Cream's Steelyard, whose stage Field Day used last year the following weekend, have just announced Finsbury Park the weekend before Field Day.
 
Just in case it was not obvious from the letter, Field Day is confirmed to be moving to Brockwell Park. And it sounds like a long term arrangement.

All I could think whilst sloshing through lawns turned to mud at Field Day last year was "I'm so glad this is not in my park".
 
Is it? That letter says 'planning' - I've also asked them (via FB) if there's any other way of talking to them about it, as there's no contact details on the sheet attached, and I can't make the 20th.
 
snowy_again said:
Is it? That letter says 'planning' - I've also asked them (via FB) if there's any other way of talking to them about it, as there's no contact details on the sheet attached, and I can't make the 20th.
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It reads as a done deal to me. Unless it has been deliberately drafted to sound like a done deal when it's not.

The letter is an invite to "review plans that have been put in place for the event."
 
So that's Field Day just about definite, Lovebox very, very likely, plus - presumably - the same ones we had this year.

 
I don't think Sunfall is happening again next year at least? This year's was a huge fuck up, and they'd announced by this time last year.
 
Rushy said:
Just in case it was not obvious from the letter, Field Day is confirmed to be moving to Brockwell Park. And it sounds like a long term arrangement.

All I could think whilst sloshing through lawns turned to mud at Field Day last year was "I'm so glad this is not in my park".
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In Haringey/Islington they have been trying to curtail the annual Wireless festival, currently waiting for the outcome of the court case

Blog – The Friends of Finsbury Park
 
Tolpuddle said:
No sooner had I posted that than I heard that the court of appeal has kicked the challenge into the long grass (sorry!) and Haringey Council can run Wireless in Finsbury Park.
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Interesting...
the court has found that the Council holds Finsbury Park on trust for the public, this means that any monies rasied by the Council from the hire of Finsbury Park must be used only for the purpose of Finsbury Park. The Friends will also be asking Haringey Council to account for all the monies they have raised by the hire of Finsbury Park as they are only allowed to spend the monies on Finsbury itself. The friends are concerned that in fact the Council has been using the monies for it’s general parks budget.
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I asked Field day for other ways to input or hear about their plans (as I can't make the meeting). Five days later no reply. The letters to my block were dumped in the hallway, and then thrown away by the cleaner as there's a 'no junk mail' policy.
 
From the Brockwell Park Community Partners:

You will have heard that Field Day, an event provider that is hoping to host a major gated event in Brockwell Park next summer is holding a meeting for the community this evening in the Baptist Church at Herne Hill (7.00 pm).

They do not have any agreement with Lambeth and they have gone ahead with the meeting although it was not formally agreed. Even so, if you are interested, please turn up.
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brixtonblade said:
I thought the council had agreed to the event?
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Rushy said:
It reads as a done deal to me. Unless it has been deliberately drafted to sound like a done deal when it's not.
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It turns out that the latter was true.

But having just sat through the consultation I think Lambeth made it fairly clear that it would be a shoe in. They skirted over big picture issues such as the fact that the whole area occupied by the Lambeth Country Show would be walled off to park users for the best part of three weeks and that Field Day want to cram the same 45,000 visitors into a much smaller space than normal; whilst assuring folk that they were listening to concerns and would be tough about nitty gritty such as recycling and hosing down people's streets after they had been used as toilets.

Jamie Akinola for Lambeth had clearly been studying Tony Blair for his presentation technique.

There was a bit of veiled suggestion that if locals did not agree to host Field Day, the country show might go.

It seems that the granting of the licence will come down to the impact of the single event and the cumulative effect of all the other events will not be a consideration.
 
Rushy said:
It turns out that the latter was true.

But having just sat through the consultation I think Lambeth made it fairly clear that it would be a shoe in. They skirted over big picture issues such as the fact that the whole area occupied by the Lambeth Country Show would be walled off to park users for the best part of three weeks and that Field Day want to cram the same 45,000 visitors into a much smaller space than normal; whilst assuring folk that they were listening to concerns and would be tough about nitty gritty such as recycling and hosing down people's streets after they had been used as toilets.

Jamie Akinola for Lambeth had clearly been studying Tony Blair for his presentation technique.

There was a bit of veiled suggestion that if locals did not agree to host Field Day, the country show might go.

It seems that the granting of the licence will come down to the impact of the single event and the cumulative effect of all the other events will not be a consideration.
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Wow... Didn't realise it was that big.
 
Seems as if Victoria Park/Tower Hamlets have given all events the boot for summer 2018. Thats Field Day, Lovebox and Winterville that i know of all relocated to Lambeth. Not that i am complaining, it means if i want to go to one of these fun events, i can walk there and home again :thumbs:
 
jimbarkanoodle said:
Seems as if Victoria Park/Tower Hamlets have given all events the boot for summer 2018. Thats Field Day, Lovebox and Winterville that i know of all relocated to Lambeth. Not that i am complaining, it means if i want to go to one of these fun events, i can walk there and home again :thumbs:
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They have replaced Field Day with All Points East, a three day festival followed by a multi day community event and then three gigs on three separate days.

At the"consultation" Field Day organisers kept reminding the audience that they had been booted out by a large faceless American corporate, prepared to pay more money for the venue (and deliver a community event in the middle).
 
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