Abbevillemumof3 wrote:Clapham Common gets partially closed for weeks over the summer do all sorts of festivals etc.
While Clapham Common is about the same size as Battersea Park the significant difference is that events on Clapham Common take up a small part of the common. When Formula-E was in Battersea Park - as Councillor Cooke notes - most of the work was on the perimeter road, this blocked access to around 95% of the park for around three weeks.
Imagine the events on Clapham Common fencing off all access from the major roads around it - that's how the park was. Of course, feel free to lobby Formula-E to hold its next event on Clapham Common (hopefully though Lambeth Council wouldn't act as rashly as Wandsworth)
Stop being a nimby (not in my backyard), stop moaning. You just have to suck it up sometimes. Visit a different park for a change over that w/e.
I am proud to be called a nimby on this issue - it is a local issue, and clearly only local people are affected. I hardly expect support from people that never visit the park. But we don't just want it taken somewhere else for others to suffer - we think it needs an appropriate venue. There are dozens of suitable racing tracks in the UK, there are probably other commercial venues that would love it too (ExCel, Wembley and the Olympic Park have been mentioned).
Your statement here clearly shows that you are completely missing the point. We are not campaigning about the closure of the park for a weekend, we are campaigning about the closure of the park for four days (probably excluding around 100,000 visitors), the health and safety issues and the blocking of access to the park over a three week period (which probably excluded another 100,000 visitors). Many people also had leisure and sports events cancelled in order to accommodate this event (in one case I know of where a children's event was cancelled at short notice by the organisers because of the health and safety and access issues).
And yes, my family attended. My 8 year old thought it was amazing.
The race, or the associated events? My seven year old was bored of the race after two laps. I've heard stories of motorsport fans going home and watching it on TV because the sight lines were so poor.
I don't doubt that some, many, or even most of the people visiting the park that weekend enjoyed the associated events - but those events could have been run without the race, and thus without the three weeks of disruption and limited access that ensued.
[quote="Abbevillemumof3"]Clapham Common gets partially closed for weeks over the summer do all sorts of festivals etc.[/quote]
While Clapham Common is about the same size as Battersea Park the significant difference is that events on Clapham Common take up a small part of the common. When Formula-E was in Battersea Park - as Councillor Cooke notes - most of the work was on the perimeter road, this blocked access to around 95% of the park for around three weeks.
Imagine the events on Clapham Common fencing off all access from the major roads around it - that's how the park was. Of course, feel free to lobby Formula-E to hold its next event on Clapham Common (hopefully though Lambeth Council wouldn't act as rashly as Wandsworth)
[quote]Stop being a nimby (not in my backyard), stop moaning. You just have to suck it up sometimes. Visit a different park for a change over that w/e.[/quote]
I am proud to be called a nimby on this issue - it is a local issue, and clearly only local people are affected. I hardly expect support from people that never visit the park. But we don't just want it taken somewhere else for others to suffer - we think it needs an appropriate venue. There are dozens of suitable racing tracks in the UK, there are probably other commercial venues that would love it too (ExCel, Wembley and the Olympic Park have been mentioned).
Your statement here clearly shows that you are completely missing the point. We are not campaigning about the closure of the park for a weekend, we are campaigning about the closure of the park for four days (probably excluding around 100,000 visitors), the health and safety issues and the blocking of access to the park over a three week period (which probably excluded another 100,000 visitors). Many people also had leisure and sports events cancelled in order to accommodate this event (in one case I know of where a children's event was cancelled at short notice by the organisers because of the health and safety and access issues).
[quote]And yes, my family attended. My 8 year old thought it was amazing.[/quote]
The race, or the associated events? My seven year old was bored of the race after two laps. I've heard stories of motorsport fans going home and watching it on TV because the sight lines were so poor.
I don't doubt that some, many, or even most of the people visiting the park that weekend enjoyed the associated events - but those events could have been run without the race, and thus without the three weeks of disruption and limited access that ensued.
