PeckhamRose

Hi folks, to those of you who complained about the noise, you will have received the following email today. I am sure those of you who were upset, did complain, and received this. I copy in full. PLEASE PLEASE EMAIL [email protected] and tell them your name, and when you want to go to the drop in as below. "To whom it may concern, We are reaching out to invite you to our upcoming Residents & Stakeholder Debrief Drop In Sessions for Gala 2025. We are following the same format of two drop-in sessions in order to allow for more meaningful conversations and feedback. Lunchtime Session: Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Date: Tuesday 12th of August Location: The Watson's General Telegraph, 108 Forest Hill Rd, London SE22 0RS Evening Session: Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Date: Tuesday 12th of August Location: The Watson's General Telegraph, 108 Forest Hill Rd, London SE22 0RS As these are drop-in sessions, you can arrive at any time during the below sessions - but it would be greatly appreciated if you could advise on an approximate arrival time. If you would like to attend, please respond with: Your name - Your address - Your estimated time of arrival - We really appreciate your feedback and taking the time to attend our engagement meetings. Yours sincerely, Community Team | GALA Festival" End of copied section. Email [email protected] and tell them name address and when you think you can be there on 12th August, between 12pm and 2pm and 6 till 8pm

Someone on another website, seems to be in the know and like some of us attends the pre and post event meets this year held at the Clockhouse, said, "....but I think they wanted to get other organisers in to run the other weekend (like at Brockwell), and couldn't make it happen in the timeframe so withdrew the application. Bearing in mind they are already advertising pre-registration for next year's tickets, I suspect they are a bit more organised this time and it will take a bit more to stop them..." Quite. When the post meeting is announced I hope we shall all attend. I shall share details on here when I get my email invite. I hope we all bothered to complain too,

BRILLIANT. Sorry, I whispered, "brilliant"!

Well aren't you the lucky one. Stick around!

I don't care if they had every band I loved in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, the fact is we're surrounded by residential areas, and those who live not just around the park but for a good mile beyond, the noise is too loud. I can hear today's (23 May 2025 - 2pm onwards) noise from the east side of the park, and I had to shut my double glazed balcony doors and windows and can STILL hear it, from the other side of the park. [email protected] and 02075255777 noise complaints. In the news are items about people who listen to their music or speak to people on their phones loudly without headphones so we all hear it. This is the same.

Hello, how many of you went to the drop in meetings at Peckham Levels? Me and a mate went at 7.30pm. Three of the production people were there. They admitted they did not like the tree cutting issue and could not answer to the higher volume this year that appeared to affect so many of us. I did not believe there were only eight objections! But that didn't include those who complained directly to [email protected] They said they had explored the area that day and we had also been and I showed them photos of the large and many areas that still needed to be made good, four months on. They agreed and said they would be doing the 'making good' on that soon. Anyway, the 3 Gala people said that they had had emails from people who said they could not make the drop in centre days, and so would be arranging for a zoom event with those of you who said they could not attend. Gala may be an event you think is just to be discussed immediately before and after the event, but plans are started months ahead and post event analyses are worked on long after, as well as these post event meetings. I told them that whilst they might be nice professional people I wished Gala would never come back for all the bad feeling and disruption it causes in OUR park to our residents.

In August or September all residents of Southwark will be given food waste bins. Currently, those of us who live in flats don't get them. This is a good thing, Last Government had withheld money but paid up a while before election and now Southwark will be doing this.

So let's all go for about 7.30pm?

An interesting series of responses here. I think they're trying to do the divide thing too, rather than have us all together in one space near to the venue, and away from Peckham Rye Park. By the way cyclemonkey, regarding postcodes. Peckham Rye has two postcodes. Peckham Rye Common is SE15 ie. Peckham postcode. Peckham Rye Park is SE22 ie. East Dulwich. But I have an idea. Why don't we - as many of us who can - all arrive together around 7.30pm? The email said they'd be taken us one by one to the Auditorium. Well we can ALL sit in the Auditorium. By definition it is a big space. Let's do that! I won't be able to get there much before then anyway. We can demand to all be heard together and we all have the same questions.

Hi, it was cancelled at 5.30pm half an hour before it was due to start for reasons of "operational needs". We got there at 10 to 6 and the doors were closed and I looked at my phone and saw that email. Shall update you when it is next due. Nope. All they have on their website within the met police is an online contact form, as per the attached, if it works. However, I do have contact number for the PCSO for the area and he can pass it on to the appropriate officer: [email protected] https://www.met.police.uk/area/your-area/met/southwark/peckham-rye/contact-us/our-priorities

CANCELLED Hi folks. Short notice but what can I do. At Brenchley Gardens TRA Hall 10th July 2024 6pm till 7pm (so be back for kick off) is the local police safer neighbourhood team meeting. It used to be so well attended years back, and many on here will be in that catchment area. https://www.met.police.uk/area/your-area/met/southwark/peckham-rye/about-us/crime-map We can ask questions of the police of their thoughts about the GALA festival this year and how they felt it went crime-wise, and learn of issues in the area. The police themselves do not publicise the meeting anymore on social media. They have their email list and it includes councillors and local resident housing officers who rarely, if ever, attend. But it is useful. We do live in the quieter / least crime area of SE15/22 it's true.

Hi folks. A reply from Events re my questions: "Thank you for taking the time to send us this feedback. We have an internal event debrief booked to take place on Thursday 18 July and all of the issues you have raised have been recorded and will be reviewed at this meeting. I will be able to respond fully to you after this meeting has taken place. There will also be an opportunity for local residents to attend a community debrief meeting. This is scheduled to take place at a venue close to the park w/c 22 July. This meeting will be facilitated by the GALA team, but council officers will be present also. Details will be circulated to those on the council’s stakeholder register and GALA’s stakeholder register and also to anyone who has complained about the event but does not have their contact details listed on either register. If you have any further questions in the meantime, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Charlie Simm Senior Events Officer London Borough of Southwark Email direct: [email protected] Email general: [email protected] Tel: 020 7525 2739" We must go to the meeting if you're invited because you made a complaint, or are on the list from being invited to the pre-Festival meetings.

I have emailed [email protected] with a series of questions about the event including asking how many complaints were made to them and Gala, and how many times the readings went over the limit of decibels allowed, as well as asking about if they are satisfied with the state of the park afterwards and how much money will go directly to the park. I asked quite a few pertinent and important questions. Given the replies I think we shall have more ammunition to stop this next year. However, if replies are refused or not answered in enough detail, a FOI shall be fired off and the responses to that shall be even more ammunition as it would have taken an FOI to acquire it. Either way shall keep you informed. If all of you who didn't turn up to meetings this year, turn up and join the rest of us next year, with all the information about how Events and Gala went against their word on what would happen, we may just stop this. Look, I can dream, ok?

Councillor Renata Hamvas is Chair of the Licensing Committee so she can't do anything because she agrees they can have a licence. The noise possibly because of the wind went east and so those of us on the east side of the park were bombarded, it was dreadful. At the meetings I attended - yes Gala boys in their smart suits including the boys in the PR company they'd hired - all said yes yes yes they'd restore it and it would be clean and essentially we had nothing to worry about. Just like they say every year. The Friends of Peckham Rye Park (I am a member but not on the committee) do attend meetings but feel their hands are tied. They are never told how much goes back to the park. They would never see it anyway, but they should do. They do so much for the park and the Community Garden area is the best most precious place to be for me, which they maintain and work hard at. And Gala will not stop at asking for more days. One of the six days they had wanted would have been for us locals - but personally why should I go for free to a festival which puts on music I can hear from my flat? I don't want to give them any time of day or night. And yes, suggestions that the festival be had on the common were knocked back even by Southwark Events Team (who are just as responsible for this, for letting them get away with this) ([email protected]) because Peckham Rye Common has no tree surrounding to buffer noise, and being smack in the middle of that triangle it would cause more harm because of the traffic. I would beg everyone who is posting against Gala, please please get your complaints in now, and let's all physically go to the meetings next year. The ones this year were quite well attended at the Clockhouse. Sorry to go on but the sight of the site now is really upsetting and is exactly what Gala said would NOT be allowed to happen.

That photo bottom right (from the pictures posted on X), is that really Peckham Rye Park? Looks like the Sierras after a fire when there were only burned twigs, before a rainstorm happened.