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But that's the point isn't it Mal, if you go to Glastonbury you are with a hundred thousand other people in the wilds of the country and you cannot complain about noise disruption - you can be selective about where you camp of course. The Glasto organisers and local council go out of their way to keep the locals onside - friends of mine used to live in a village some miles from Worthy Farm and would be offered free tickets. But there are a lot of people in Dulwich and Herne Hill and Brixton who have huge amounts of disruption thrust upon them because this is, after all, a densely populated urban area and not deepest Somerset. Councils want to monetise our public spaces as much as they can but this is often in conflict with the needs and wants of their constituents who live nearby. What is happening in Brockwell is a warning as Southwark will want to try and monetise Peckham Rye to the same extent if they can. -
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It is a fact that the festival has been expanded once, both in size and timescale. Attending the free day will be spun as support for not only this but even further expansion and embolden Southwark to launch more events and we could end up like Brockwell. -
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Yep Monday is family festival but I think it would be churlish to avoid this on principle and if you are free at least check it out. I was simply responding to a comment that there were not free festivals. I've no strong feelings about Gala, and whilst I could hear it, it stopped around 11 and I've experienced worse. Volunteering at Glastonbury and at Shambala and that bloody drum and base going on till 4 in the morning. I'm aware Gala affects others far more but conflating this with LTNs and with Lambeth council was strange.
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