Lambeth events procedure "unlawful" Lots of whips Ambulance locked out
Brockwell Park February 2025
Large commercial events in the Park
Lambeth want to avoid taking their summer event programme to the Planning Committee where the decision will be made in public so they propose that the Cabinet Member for events, Cllr Donatus Anyanwu, should issue a 'Certificate of Lawfulness' (the 'L' is clearly redundant) claiming that the total events programme will deny the park to local kids and other park users for only 28 days. This is clearly significant undercounting as it ignores weeks of setting up and taking down the metal prison walls and fails to include the time the funfairs take up space in the park.
Cllr Anyanwu is paid £30,821 for this responsibility on top of his standard Councillor's allowance of £15,960. It's clearly going to be a difficult decision for him.
Protect Brockwell Park, a group of concerned local residents, commissioned legal advice which concludes Lambeth's proposal is "erroneous as a matter of law". This is very serious and the Council must respond. We are enormously grateful to the members of Protect Brockwell Park for their initiative.
You can read the Counsel's opinion on our Events webpage at events.brockwellpark.co.uk
Lambeth want to avoid taking their summer event programme to the Planning Committee where the decision will be made in public so they propose that the Cabinet Member for events, Cllr Donatus Anyanwu, should issue a 'Certificate of Lawfulness' (the 'L' is clearly redundant) claiming that the total events programme will deny the park to local kids and other park users for only 28 days. This is clearly significant undercounting as it ignores weeks of setting up and taking down the metal prison walls and fails to include the time the funfairs take up space in the park.
Cllr Anyanwu is paid £30,821 for this responsibility on top of his standard Councillor's allowance of £15,960. It's clearly going to be a difficult decision for him.
Protect Brockwell Park, a group of concerned local residents, commissioned legal advice which concludes Lambeth's proposal is "erroneous as a matter of law". This is very serious and the Council must respond. We are enormously grateful to the members of Protect Brockwell Park for their initiative.
You can read the Counsel's opinion on our Events webpage at events.brockwellpark.co.uk
Consultation meetings
There will be two public consultation meetings on the summer events on Monday 17th February starting at 4pm and 6:30pm at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, 198 Railton Road, SE24 0JT. At a previous Brockwell Park events consultation the responsible Cabinet Member attended but refused to say anything or answer questions. Perhaps it will be different this time.
There will be two public consultation meetings on the summer events on Monday 17th February starting at 4pm and 6:30pm at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, 198 Railton Road, SE24 0JT. At a previous Brockwell Park events consultation the responsible Cabinet Member attended but refused to say anything or answer questions. Perhaps it will be different this time.
Lambeth Consultation on events
Lambeth say they are not consulting residents (Council Tax payers) or the Friends of Brockwell Park about the events programme, however local Councillors will be permitted to give their views until 9th February.
You can find the contact details for your Councillors by entering your postcode here
Lambeth say they are not consulting residents (Council Tax payers) or the Friends of Brockwell Park about the events programme, however local Councillors will be permitted to give their views until 9th February.
You can find the contact details for your Councillors by entering your postcode here
Volunteer Biodiversity Planting
FoBP had our second Biodiversity Planting day on Saturday 11th January, run in association with Lambeth's Biodiversity team. It was an enormous success with 31 volunteers planting a hundred whips (small trees) at the new biodiversity area near the Brixton Water Lane gate.
We hope to have another biodiversity day soon and will send info to all members and volunteers.
FoBP had our second Biodiversity Planting day on Saturday 11th January, run in association with Lambeth's Biodiversity team. It was an enormous success with 31 volunteers planting a hundred whips (small trees) at the new biodiversity area near the Brixton Water Lane gate.
We hope to have another biodiversity day soon and will send info to all members and volunteers.
Ambulance locked out
There was a meeting at the One o' Clock Club in Brockwell Park on 26th January. One of the attendees had a heart attack. There was no defibrillator (why not?) but after a 999 call an ambulance arrived in only seven minutes. Brilliant! BUT there were chains and a padlock wrapped round the gates so the amulance was unable to get in. Unbelievable!
The FoBP vice-chair was at the meeting. He found someone doing building work nearby who had an angle grinder and the gate was opened for the ambulance who took the heart-attack victim to hospital.
There was a meeting at the One o' Clock Club in Brockwell Park on 26th January. One of the attendees had a heart attack. There was no defibrillator (why not?) but after a 999 call an ambulance arrived in only seven minutes. Brilliant! BUT there were chains and a padlock wrapped round the gates so the amulance was unable to get in. Unbelievable!
The FoBP vice-chair was at the meeting. He found someone doing building work nearby who had an angle grinder and the gate was opened for the ambulance who took the heart-attack victim to hospital.