GALA 2026

[oldermum]

I did. I have emailed the events team at Southwark and given my objections. Also objected to the way that the consultation was carried out - online meeting in the middle of the day that not everyone could access. In person meeting at Peckham library in the late evening , cold, dark and wet. This means that people could not easily give their view. There is a petition on Change.org asking Southwark not to go ahed with the festival.

[Sue]

1 hour ago, oldermum said:

I did. I have emailed the events team at Southwark and given my objections. Also objected to the way that the consultation was carried out - online meeting in the middle of the day that not everyone could access. In person meeting at Peckham library in the late evening , cold, dark and wet. This means that people could not easily give their view. There is a petition on Change.org asking Southwark not to go ahed with the festival.

Please could you give a link to the petition?

Not sure if it has already been posted on here, but if it has it is on a previous page, so not everybody reading this may see it.

Thanks!

[MrsR]

 

https://www.change.org/p/urge-southwark-council-to-stop-issuing-a-license-to-gala-festival-in-peckham-rye

 

[aggie]

Just a reminder that the ‘consultation period’ ends on Tuesday, comments need to be in by then. The petition is going well, every signature helps!

[aggie]

Ellie Reeves MP will be outside the Herne Tavern at 10.45 today to hear the concerns of local people. Ideal location for discussing GALA.

[first mate]

Had no idea this was happening so missed it. Did many go? I would have if I had known.

[Sue]

https://love.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-new-approach-to-brockwell-park-events-programme-proposed/

[JJ1873]

Apologies if this has been asked before. But has the council posted any black and white facts about what income gala brings in and therefore what it funds in the long term? 
 

appreciate it causes a commotion for a few weeks but if it brings in enough revenue to fund the park being a nice place for the rest of the year it feels worth it. 
 

[Penguin68]

In the past such details have always been described as commercially sensitive, which they possibly are. So we've never really known what the deals actually were. And whether they represented value for money for the council, and hence us. 

[JJ1873]

So if we were to give the council the benefit of the doubt there is a chance this might be net beneficial to Peckham rye? There’s a slim chance someone somewhere has crunched the numbers and not done this purely to annoy us?