COMMUNITY MAILING LIST

Thank you for attending the recent Brockwell Live community meeting. We greatly appreciate your involvement and the valuable contributions you made during the discussion.

We are pleased to share details of the next opportunity to meet the Brockwell Live team...

Herne Hill Baptist Church (Half Moon Lane, SE24 9HU)

Wednesday 19th March

14:00 - 20:00

The session will be an informal drop-in format. It aims to provide an opportunity for those wishing to discuss specific feedback of the event’s operation in more depth.

You are welcome to attend anytime between 14:00 and 20:00, and our team will be available throughout.

Please note that Lambeth Council will not be present at the Resident Drop-In, but will join us for a second Community Meeting at the end of April.

In 2024 we introduced a monthly community mailer, which is sent out to everyone in our address book in order to keep people informed of our plans. If you would like to join this list, please add your details here.

We are also keen to talk to resident associations in order to distribute information to local residents. If you run an association, please contact us on community@brockwell-live.com

You can contact your Brockwell Live Community Liaison Team who will do their utmost to support and advise on any issues or concerns you may have. The team are reachable through the below:

community@brockwell-live.com

localbusiness@brockwell-live.com

You will receive a receipt to confirm we have received your email, and the team will get back to you within 5 working days.

Guest list donations will all be contributed to the Brockwell Live Community Fund, which supports a variety of local community projects in our neighbourhood. This is in addition to the park rent and PIL.

We’d like to extend our thanks to all who applied for funding from the Brockwell Live Community Fund in 2024. We received double the number of applications compared to 2023, and it is great to support projects in such a highly engaged community. For full details on all of this year’s successfully funded projects, please head to our community fund page.

Financial negotiations about the park rent with Lambeth Council are subject to commercial confidentiality. However, the income from Brockwell Live helps pay for park maintenance, including the £500,000 annual cost of maintaining Brockwell Park, and to fund the Lambeth Events team who deliver over 200 community events a year.

In addition to the rent, Brockwell Live contributes £100k each year to the Park Investment Levy (PIL) which is ring-fenced for park improvements only. The park investment levy is transferred to the Parks department and in consultation with the Brockwell Park Community Partners is spent on various projects, including biodiversity initiatives, restoration of heritage facilities (such as the Listed clock tower outside Brockwell Hall), and enhancements to play and sport facilities.

PIL is not used for park repairs, which are funded by Lambeth, or for repairs after the events which are funded by the event organiser.

Furthermore, Brockwell Live has donated over £139k to local community projects since 2019, and for more information on this and how to apply, please see here

Brockwell Live undertakes a business engagement programme in order to support and promote local businesses. This includes a dedicated business phone number and email address, which can be used to report things relating to the events to us, in real time. The phone number will be distributed as part of the business mailout, which will be sent to you before the event, and the email address runs year round on localbusiness@brockwell-live.com.

Our business engagement for 2024 included the following:

A call out through the community mailer and festival social media, this was for businesses to sign up to the following:

Our yearly Local Business Map which will be hosted in partnership with Brockwell Live and Woov Festival app.

Selected businesses will be featured in a Local business spotlight on the individual festival’s mailing list.

In 2024, Brockwell Live partnered with businesses local to the park to offer discounts and encourage spend among staff.

We are currently reviewing our business engagement plan for 2025 and will be announcing this soon. Please sign up to our mailing list for updates.

The event organisers aim to protect Brockwell Park as much as possible. We use over 11,000m2 of temporary roadways and walkways in order to help minimise the impact to the grass within the park.

Brockwell Live works with park stakeholders including the Lambeth Landscapes team, the Parks and Sports Development Officer and the Arboricultural Officer to understand our impact on trees, wildlife, and biodiversity. Our plans include designing the site in such a way as to limit impact on the flora and fauna of the park, monitoring noise, limiting working hours, and tracking ground conditions throughout our time on site.

Once the event period is complete on June 16th, no further major commercial events will take place in Brockwell Park. All public spaces will be cleaned and returned to the best possible standard by the event organisers and any ground repairs will be led by London Borough of Lambeth. A handover is undertaken between Lambeth Landscapes team, the Parks and Development teams, Lambeth Council, and the Brockwell Live team at this point. The cost of cleanup and reinstatement of park grounds following adverse weather will be funded by the event organisers.

Brockwell Live works closely with the Lambeth trees team and Parks officers in order to protect the trees within the footprint and outside of it. This includes designing the site to ensure nothing falls within the tree line, and using ballast where we are situated close to root structures. The Lambeth trees team are involved in all stages of the planning and site design, and have sign-off of all areas of the site before the construction begins. Brockwell Live has no involvement in the management of dead or dying trees within the park. More information on this can be found here.

For further information on park repairs, please contact: events@lambeth.gov.uk.

Brockwell Live has been approved to take place within the boundaries of Lambeth’s Event Strategy and Event Policy 2020 – 2025, in addition to an agreed Events Framework on Brockwell Park in consultation with the Brockwell Park Community Partners.

Brockwell Live goes through a rigorous event application process and additional legislative and statutory procedures such as licensing and building control before our event. Our event plans are scrutinised at every stage of the planning by Officers, Councillors and agencies within the Safety Advisory Group (SAG) including MET Police Events and Licensing teams, NHS, TfL, and various Lambeth departments.

Our events are always subject to the debrief, pre-planning, consultation, and Safety Advisory Group (SAG) processes. No event in Brockwell Park is authorised until council officers and responsible agencies within the SAG are satisfied that any learning from the previous event has been considered and mitigated where possible.

In consultation with stakeholders, the Brockwell Live series takes place in the Spring so that the park is available for the community during the school holidays.

Sound of all types, including sub-bass, registers on monitoring equipment. Lambeth have established specific maximum sound levels for all event organisers in the borough, including Brockwell Live. The maximum sound levels and sound level monitoring locations for the main open spaces in the London Borough of Lambeth including Brockwell Park, as follows:

- The maximum Music Noise Level (MNL) shall be 75dB L(A)eq, 15 minutes (free field) outside any noise sensitive premises.

- The maximum low frequency Music Noise Level (LFMNL) shall be 90 dB L(C)eq, 15 minutes (free field) outside any noise sensitive premises.

Levels are constantly monitored by a reputable sound consultant (appointed by the Council and independent of the festival organiser).

Brockwell Live is subject to a premises licence issued under the Licensing Act 2003, which includes conditions that relate to the management and reporting of noise.

Our event team are currently working to update our sustainability/environmental policies and targets for 2025. Full information will be available soon.

Thank you for applying to the Brockwell Live resident ticket ballot. We will be announcing the results on the 28th March. Best of luck!

Please note, the application deadline for the local residents and business ballots have now passed.