East Drinks BBQ and TT- 28.07.2010 - London Fields

Please do make sure that the BBQs do not rest on the grass as they burn it and spoil the park.

ok dad

It is currently a huge concern for the London Fields User Group--do you get their newsletter, Marlon?

From the latest one:

**Rubbish in the park
**We are having so many problems at the moment with selfish people hogging the space in London Fields and leaving the park afterwards as an untidy dump. Leaving plastic & paper, empty cans, empty bottles & bottle tops and of course the ubiquitous fag ends. Because some people have been allowed to get away with small BBQ’s, others now come along with piles of wood and have full sized bonfires, with one actually on the cricket pitch, increasingly giving our park a scorched earth appearance. Talk about giving an inch and taking a mile!

Other outsiders are writing about these freedoms on websites, encouraging others to come along to the free for all from all over London. There are uncontrolled parties with heavy drinking lasting well through the night accompanied with loud music on large sound systems. With other drunks sleeping it off into the morning. Toilet facilities are vandalised while others drunkenly relive themselves anywhere. London Fields, a small park with a large mix of people living close by all around, of all ages, all nationalities, most of whom are trying to sleep of a night.

Our winning of the green flag award in future is in serious doubt; along with the damage to the environment and wildlife the park now suffers. Not least of this is the noise pollution of a night, with the council noise abatement people apparently unable to stop the anti-social behaviour. While the police are little better and appear to avoid confrontation instead of keeping the peace. This new input of people is now becoming unbearable for the local population. The council and police must do something urgently, to halt this rapid slide to anarchy. Respect for our park with legal enforcement of bylaws must be retained and the message broadcast that London Fields is not the party venue of the moment any more.

Possible actions:

• Official notices for banning burning and night raves (Clissold Park has anti BBQ signs)
  
• Petition of residents adjacent to London Fields
  
• Delegation to see Mayor Pipe
  
• Open letter to area police commissioner
  
  

This isn't just a sudden knee-jerk reaction--it's been building up for years.

I'm obviously not saying that Easts will propel the park into 'anarchy', but it is worth bearing in mind--e.g., make sure, if we go there, that we are really quite tidy about collecting rubbish.