Strict new limits have been imposed on any music festivals that will be held in Newcastle’s Exhibition Park, after an outcry from neighbours about last year’s This Is Tomorrow concerts.
More than 90 complaints were lodged about the “horrendous” disturbance caused by the four-day festival last September to neighbours in Jesmond, with city council chiefs admitting that the event “did not go well”. But organisers will now have to comply with a set of stringent rules designed to avoid a repeat of those problems – including heavier restrictions on noise levels.
The move will cast doubt over whether festivals on the scale of This Is Tomorrow will be able to return to Exhibition Park at all and could have a major knock-on effect for the finances of Urban Green Newcastle, the charity which now runs Newcastle’s parks.
