Brent Public Safety Team raise significanrt concerns over safety at proposed K-Pop Festival in Northwick Park

 The papers for the licensing of the K-Pop Festival in Northwick Parl released earlier noted that representations from the Brent Council Officer were still outstaning.

Their concerns have now been released via an email to the organisers and reveal significant concerns.

Please see below updated comments from the public safety team.

·       The emergency evacuation I raised my concerns regarding the evacuation towards red gate (Northwick Park station) in the BSAG [Brent Safety Advisory Group) and how you can have 4 exits (50% of the exits) directing approximately half the capacity in this direction, the walk way to the station is very narrow and would cause a bottleneck for the large amount of people attempting to enter in this direction and potentially dangerous situation. It was discussed about using another station and not Northwick park station but I have not seen any amended documentation to support this.

·       The PUDO (Pick Up Drop off) site location I also raised the comment that this could also be an issue in the event of an emergency evacuation this would have vehicles waiting to collect people and would block and or restrict blue light services from gaining access to the event.

·       On the 7th June Wembley stadium have a major event, this may impact on your event (Ingress/egress) what are your plan of actions for this.

·       Have you consulted with the proposed stations about use of their station and the platform capacity? And how many persons will potentially use this as the preferred transport method?

·       In the scenario that your customers arrive the night before you open to camp, how will you manage them and provide welfare?