The first step in the long-awaited handover of Crystal Palace Park from Bromley Council to the Crystal Palace Park Trust took place at the beginning of April, with a lease to the Trust of the concert platform – also known as the Rusty Laptop. The transfer of the concert platform falls short of the originally anticipated full transfer of the Park on 1st April. The Council and the Trust stated: ‘The handover is being phased over the next few months, with full handover expected to be completed by September, rather than by April as initially targeted.’ The Trust’s business model assumes that resources to improve the park, including day-to-day maintenance,…
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Festival season in the park
The festival season at Crystal Palace Park got under way with the Wireless Festival on 1, 2 and 3 July. Feedback from residents suggest that the Festival was better managed than in 2021. In a survey carried out by the CPCA last year, only 26% considered that the Festival was well-managed then, and only 10% felt that consultation with the local community was adequate. This year, Wireless organisers Festival Republic promised to be ‘good neighbours’ and took steps to address traffic management, noise, and debris and urination in surrounding streets. The Festival was accompanied by a heavy, some might say over-heavy, police and security presence. Last year’s survey showed that…
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Are Festivals the future for Crystal Palace Park?
The Crystal Palace Park Trust is due to take over day-to-day running of the Park from Bromley Council. It has stated that, in order to provide sufficient income for maintenance and much-needed improvements, it is essential that the Park hosts large scale events such as the recent South Facing and Wireless concerts. The Wireless event caused major disruption across the Crystal Palace, Anerley, Penge and Upper Norwood areas and residents have expressed strong views both in support of and against future major events. The Trust has indicated that it will carry out a consultation later in the year but CPCA believes that local residents should be invited to express their…
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CRYSTAL PALACE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION AGM
This will now take place on Thursday 5th August. Members will have received an email with an invitation including details of the Zoom meeting and how to receive a link.
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KNOWING BRIAN DANN FOR 45 YEARS
In July 1969 Brian had seen, in our local Norwood News, an article l had written about our Crystal Palace Triangle. Our local council was letting it slip into disrepair…l had a scheme to revive it with the creation of Family Arts Centre. This imaginative idea attracted the interest of many local people including the artist and graphic designer Mike Conrad and Brian Dann -poet! Over the years so many people gave so much of their time and talents to the Crystal Palace Community Association, which we created, but Brian and Mike were among the outstanding founder members – so many talents and such patience and kindness to me and…