Leazes Park is the next location in line to be hit by a festival crackdown as part of a war on noise in Newcastle.
Council bosses have recently imposed tough new limits on events in Exhibition Park after complaints that the city’s green spaces were being turned into “outdoor nightclubs” for big concerts like This Is Tomorrow, while similar action has been promised ahead of the huge LooseFest on the Town Moor this summer. A ruling is now set to be made next week that could see restrictions imposed on Leazes Park, which has played host to music festivals like Noughty 90s and Lost Minds.
Urban Green Newcastle, the charity which runs the city’s parks, will come before councillors once again next week in a bid to secure a new alcohol and events licence. Bosses’ last appearance before Newcastle City Council’s licensing sub-committee became a drawn-out and often fractious affair, with clashes over “horrendous” nuisance suffered by Exhibition Park’s neighbours in Jesmond.
