Issue - meetings

To receive the report of the Acting Commercial Director, Lucy Fenner, Alexandra Palace,  seeking views on recent APTL events and activity.

RECEIVED the report of the Commercial Director (pages 31-44 of agenda pack) presented by  Lucy Fenner (Acting Commercial Director, Alexandra Palace).

NOTED that

a.         the Cancer Research Waterslide was a pre-booked event and applicants would need to register their interest, paying £10 in advance.  Demand was expected to outweigh supply, therefore names would be drawn from a hat;

b.         in response to questioning about whether there had been any complaints about noise from The Prodigy concert it was stated that one complaint had been received at 9.30pm on one of the nights and one complaint had been posted on Twitter.  The committees acknowledged that the event was well planned  to minimise the disruption to the local community;

c.         capacity for the fireworks event had been increased to 50,000 (page 37) and a map showing the various zones and entrances in the Park was made available at the meeting.  The committees discussed the details, including:

·         additional entry points to ease congestion and early notices detailing the entrances that would be open for the event;

·         Alexandra Palace Way would be closed from 10pm on Friday 6 until 8am on Sunday 8 November but an area in ‘zone 6’ would remain open to enable dog walkers to access the Park;

·         There had been forced entry at the Campsbourne gate area at last year’s fireworks and the options for preventing the same occurring this year were being considered.

d.         local and community organisations were invited to host stalls in The Grove at the Summer festival including SAC/CC organisations.

RESOLVED to note the report, including the Park Activity and plans for the 2015 fireworks event.