Emma Warren, quoted in your article (What are public parks? Within the debate powered by London Festival Row, 24 May), it is not possible to be more mistaken when he says Brockwell park campaign protection is about “a small number of people trying to limit a larger number of access to people in space”. Parks are open to all, all year, except for weeks leading to and at festivals.
For centuries, local parks are stored in parents’ sanity with children, allowing children to meet each other and allow older people who have separated from loneliness. Parks should be preserved because they egalitarian and provide a meeting space that helps build communities.
Just a small thing in low festivals that treat a park and the local community with respect. What we see today is the event companies that come from cash-strapped local authorities to remove areas of the concerts of the masses, often exit the park with many days of healing. There is little transparency what changes in the hands, what money is made, what it is used for and how much it costs to repair costs. Years of forgetful Cutcacks at Local Local Authority leave parks with skeleton staff, inadequate to make the change necessary to these events. Effects can be completely and permanently.
The Chief Executive of the Association of Independent Festivals says local authority is “a representation of the local community”. Well, he said that, isn’t it? Not many people feel represented.
Victor Pace
Silent hill, London
Executing strong music to others as unacceptable to public parks as from a bus phone or a garden speaker. Elementary social unable to show noise of neighbors and colleagues traveling rapidly. And the public parks at all, not only the minority would attend Pop concerts.
Paul Keleeling
Welling, Kent
