Help save Tooting Common and Lake Side!!!

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EmmaCoyle
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Help save Tooting Common and Lake Side!!!

Postby EmmaCoyle » Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:39 am

As a resident of Wandsworth and living beside Tooting Common, I was very upset and concerned to see notices at the park advertising the company Enable, who want a licence to arrange events including live music day events.

I am absolutely outraged that this could happen. 

I have lived beside the park for nearly 20 years and walk there each week and also use the Lido, which is the exact area this company Enable want to use. I am sure I am not the only local who thinks the same. We do not want to be kept awake in an evening listening to a live event after trolling through hoards of people destroying our park and area during the day.

Can you please help to stop such an inconsiderate company who want to inflict loud music and an influx in people into our beautiful area?

Enable are trying to make an argument that they are bringing Culture to the area. As an artist and a member of Wigmore Hall and the Royal Astronomical Society, these are places of culture, what Enable will be arranging are nothing more then loud invasive parties.
I have been to these 'cultural music events' in Battersea and Crystal Palace in the past. They are over crowded, too loud, run too late into the night and bad for the local environment.

Enable are giving no consideration to the local residents or the local wildlife. 

Over the last few years the council has put up notices regarding litter effecting foxes, squirrels, duck and birds in the area. We are already struggling to maintain the park which already gets very busy come Spring. As you know we also have a historic lake in this area which houses so much wildlife and a pleasure to visit.

I presume they have chosen winter time to put their notices up when the number of people using the park has dropped and there is less chance of someone seeing these notices and filing a complaint.  

I would be very grateful for your support on this issue.

The email address for complaints/comments is licensing@merton.gov.uk 

Can you please write to them to assist with this matter? It would be greatly appreciated. Please act now!!!

With kind regards,
Emma.
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Re: Help save Tooting Common and Lake Side!!!

Postby Goldhawk » Thu Jan 16, 2025 5:32 pm

Is there a reference to quote or a link to the licence/plans?
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Re: Help save Tooting Common and Lake Side!!!

Postby iowfan » Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:30 am

ENABLE are applying for a permit to do the same thing - massive events many times a year - on Wandsworth Common, too.  https://enablelc.org/parks-about-us/wandsworth-common/
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Re: Help save Tooting Common and Lake Side!!!

Postby Goldhawk » Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:26 am

Didn't Tooting Common have events previously?  Like the Luna Cinema?
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Postby Kirstie’s Mom » Fri Jan 17, 2025 6:18 pm

Please also add Wandsworth Common to this as they have their eyes set on this too .
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Re: Help save Tooting Common and Lake Side!!!

Postby Gjeiaiaiai » Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:05 am

As a local resident, I want to share this with my fellow residents to stop this going ahead.

However when I look online I can’t see anything mentioned about this. Do you have any links that I could share? Or a photo of the sign?

Thank you
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Re: Help save Tooting Common and Lake Side!!! add Wandsworth Common is so much smaller and events planned are HUGE

Postby beamervn47 » Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:11 pm

https://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/media/lic ... ations.pdf

thats where the application is, if you scroll down. However posted on a tree somewhere near me is the following

1 x3 day event hosting up to 9,999 people
1x 2 day event hosting 4000
1 one day event for up to 4999 peole and
20 x1000 person events
the reference is to site 1 and site 2 , somewher near Dorlcote Rd

it says the site plan can be found if you use the QR code on the notice. Actually scanning this brings you to the notice. It says there is an ecology report. There isn’t.
it says event providers will be responsible for litter/ just like Clapham Common events?
quote: the sale of alcohol ..and the provision of Reulated Entertainment(live music, films dance. recorded music, performance of dance) from 10.00-22.00 Mon to thursdays and 10 am to MIDNIGHT Fridays and Saturdays
theres a lot of reasons why this isnt a good idea
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Re: Help save Tooting Common and Lake Side!!!

Postby Overstrand » Thu Jan 23, 2025 1:37 pm

Hi Emma and everyone,
I too am concerned about this ability of Enable to start changing our green spaces and the very underhand way they advertise it. 

They chose a short time scale, put very small notices up in obscure places and QR codes that take you to totally unrelated sites then say that they work when they do it. They are a charity claiming hundreds of thousands of pounds (taxpayers money, paying their young staff between £35,000 and £50,000) and they need to be seen to be doing something with all this money. They are doing the same to Battersea park. Maybe it’s time they were investigated as they seem to have a lot of power and a lot of money. 

The whole point of our green spaces is to be a retreat from the busyness and noise of everyday living.  A place for people who don’t have gardens to play and engage with nature. Help with mental health issues, an oasis of calm. A place to play and space to run and be free. However, the bulging  Enable workforce need to be seen be doing something and this is a very easy thing to organise. Bring in lots of activities and events which will pay and fill their coffers and bring in more staff and then organise more events….OUR PARKS AND GREEN SPACES ARE NOT EVENT SPACES!
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Re: Help save Tooting Common and Lake Side!!!

Postby iowfan » Mon Jan 27, 2025 8:45 am

Apparently the application has now been withdrawn, thank goodness
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