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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Bill Bowkett

England's leading countryside charity calls for tougher regulation of 'exploitative' festivals in London parks

Ministers are being urged by England’s leading countryside charity to toughen up the regulation of festivals in London’s parks following a landmark legal judgement that casts doubt over the future of London’s summer music scene.

CPRE has called on the Government to push ahead stronger “temporal and spatial restrictions” on big events being held in green spaces across the capital to “prevent their over exploitation as commercial venues”.

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