Issue - meetings

To receive the report of the Managing Director, Alexandra Palace Trading Limited (APTL) advising the Advisory Committee on forthcoming events to the end of the financial year.

RECEIVED the forthcoming events report from Rebecca Kane, Managing Director, Alexandra Palace Trading Company (APTL), as set out in Pages 61 – 64 of the agenda pack.

NOTED

·        The Committees concerns that the RAC Drive-in Movie event had created noise disturbance the previous year.  Ms Kane explained that this had been an issue on the first night of the event last year when they were piloting the event, but that the sound had been adjusted that evening and all subsequent evenings, which resulted in no further complaints.

·                                            There was a comment that the Palace should hold more Open House events and it was reported that this was an initiative by the London Open House, which the Palace facilitated.  Officers were asked to check the dates of the Open House event (Friday 16^th - Saturday 17^th September) as the event was usually held on a Saturday.

·                                            Concerns were raised about the Palace maintaining the private road status for Alexandra Palace Way if it did not close the road at least once every year (normally during the annual fireworks display, which had been cancelled due to limited resources).  The Interim General Manager, Andrew Gill, stated that he would investigate whether this was the case and if necessary he would arrange for the road to be closed temporarily.

AGREED to note the report and recommend that the Board consider holding two Open House events each year at Alexandra Palace.