The morning after at Barham Park (Twitter image from Brent Council)
Local social media and community websites have been debating the issue of fireworks debris left in parks and open spaces as well as fireworks being set off in the early hours.
Brent Council tweeted several images including the one above and said:
Barham Park was left in a shocking state after being used used for fireworks. This prevented children from using its facilities. Thank you to the great keyworkers for cleaning this mess but please remember, it's everyone's responsibility to keep our parks tidy.
I understand that Brent Council had Neighbourhood Patrols working on Tuesday night with a focus on the Ealing Road area and One Tree Hill Park. Eight Fixed Penalty Notices were issued under the Public Space Protection Order that includes parks.
The environmental enforcement team who run the Neighbourhood Patrols are also aware of concerns.
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The Barham Park Car Park and the area shown in the picture is around 300 meters from Wembley Police Station. It is difficult to believe that they were not aware of what was going on.
I use the park regularly and noticed earlier this week that the quite beautiful tree that is just showing in the left of the picture was laying on its side. On closer inspection it appears that it could have been broken deliberately and not by the wind. There were empty alcohol bottles around it and 2 very large "fast gas" containers. There is always alcohol cans and and bottles around the park and a great number around the children's play area. Not to mention the increasing number of men urinating. Last week on man dropped his trousers and pants and urinated in the play area! Luckily no parents or children were there but he could easily be see by others in the park. The next day another did the same in the walled area with 2 mothers and toddlers only 10 feet away. These are regular occurrences as well other anti social incidents eg drinking dens drugs etc
As we are talking neighbourhood and environmental protection.
Why are all the C20 built parks and green spaces of London (key amenities for 1 million Londoners) excluded from the GLA All London Green Grid Supplementary Planning Document 2011 and thereby excluded from the London Plan at higher planning tier?
ALGG SPG 2011, London's C21 Green Growth protection and investment network plan clearly needs urgent review given Covid pandemic, climate change emergency, and levelling-up London?
GLA C20 built parks and green spaces designated brownfield waste land no green growth investment can't create the same neighbourhood ownership dynamic or council funding commitment, one thing leads to another......
Please support C20 designed and built, 'needs based' located parks and green spaces being included in the new London Plan 2022.
Well done the volunteers now can brent council clear up the 100s if not thousands of firework debris scattered around the park
https://chng.it/CWLvKrzY
Our MP Barry Gardiner was campaigning against noisy fireworks which cause so much distress to people, animals and wildlife and their legal use but not heard anything more about this recently...
https://www.barrygardiner.com/recentnews/barry-writes-to-trading-standards-over-the-sale-and-use-of-illegal-fireworks
Plenty of unilateral owner proposed development on central park woodland area fireworks in South Kilburn!
If c20 designed and built parks and greens are all (even in a pandemic of destination unknown) excluded from the London Plan- its green protection and investment network (green growth).
How will councils ever be motivated to care for these C20 built key amenities and how will those who rely on them protect these commons from an ideological rather than 'needs based' London Plan?
Protecting parks located where car-free mega-density housing towns are grown surely has a London Plan good growth logic?
The sensible way of ensuring that standards of health and safety can be upheld and that noise pollution can be properly controlled, would be for fireworks to be purchased by permit-holders only.
A similar protocol should apply to sound systems where decibel outputs on domstic systems should be restricted to permit holders (similar to alcohol licensing) who can be fined, or otherwise, for transgressions of any codes of practice.
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We never used to have all these really noisy fireworks years ago - why are they even made like this now? What enjoyment is there in the constant bang, bang, bang of modern fireworks? Ban the sale of fireworks to the public and hold free properly organised firework displays at certsin locations on each borough. Much better to have an organised display of pretty patterns and colours rather than this constant noise pollution.
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