Finsbury "Stalag Luft Colditz" Park

dion

If you want a rubbish start to the weekend, head on up to the park!

dion

Thanks Haringey!  Any councillors heading up for a picnic today?

gardener-joe

What dion said. Hear the amenity-loss klaxon ...

dion

And a week before the event! Lorries trucks JCBs everywhere.

dion

Very noisy too just like a building site

ADGS

The grass in places still hasn't recovered from last summer's concerts, so come Autumn it's sure to be ghastly. Still, I guess the council can claim they're joining in the Great War centenary commemoration by replacing that silly old park with a replica Somme.

Detritus

It looks appalling just a cash cow and the council don't give a shit about the local residents. I hope that they get voted out of office but I have more chance of becoming Pope than that happening. They don't listen to the local residents and have a 'we know better' attitude. Bunch of tossers.

gardener-joe

update on the arrangements posted on a local councillor's website: http://www.richardwilson.me.uk/tag/finsbury-park/ Seems to me that we (the locals) have been royally s*at upon by Labour councillors!

Arkady

Interesting that at least one of the SG Labour candidates agrees with that asessment, based on their comments at the hustings.

miss annie

Dear god alive, it's massive isn't it! Bigger than Stone Roses site. I am mightily glad I don't live near the park.

kreuzkav

And what was that comment, Ben?

Papa

Nice upset pointing councillor double bill shot there.<br><br>How much of the park have they shut? <br><br>I'm going to the Arctic Monkeys and Outkast and went to the Stone Roses, but I still think this commandeering of the park for gigs is trashing the place for very little obvious benefit and payback.<br><br>I certainly haven't noticed any improvements, extra cleanliness, sprucing up, maintenance schedule to keep grass fresh etc over the past year.<br><br>I think any profit on these gigs should be being ploughed back in to bringing the park up to the highest standards. I love Finsbury Park, but it currently compares poorly to Clissold, for example, in terms of upkeep, standard of facilities.<br>

Sutent

@papa. Friends of Finsbury park will tell you very little revenue generated by the park has been reinvested in the park. Profit has gone in to council black holes.

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NorthNineteen

It's a shame as FInsbury Park could be so much nicer - it's topologically interesting and also is quite diverse.  It's also incredibly popular, I agree about the poor state. I wonder what the Islington and Hackney position on the park is.<div><br></div><div>Haringey are so flipping useless..</div>

miss annie

They should give it over to Islington, they are quite good at open spaces. There is precedent for disorganised bankrupt councils handing over their parks to other councils to manage.

JoeV

or give it to Hackney. Agree that Clissold Park is looking quite nice these days.

Ali

Stroud Green School has been "protected" by the concert promotors  - it has been  wrapped in plastic !!

ChangN4N6

Give it to corporation of London. No gigs , yobs and more flowers .

graeme

I enjoyed it, but I didn't vote labour. The guilt is manageable.