Welcome to the resident information page for Festival Republic events at Gunnersbury Park 2024. We are happy to be back and we look forward to hearing from you and keeping you up to date with our plans for this year’s events!
EVENT DETAILS
DATE
EVENT
GATES OPEN
MUSIC ENDS
Friday 9th August
Fisher, Support: Purple Disco Machine, Vintage Culture and more to be announced
14:00
22:30
Saturday 10th August
Tom Grennan, Support: Blossoms, Caity Baser, Mae Stephens, Liv Dawson
PJ Harvey, Support: Big Thief, Tirzah, Shida Shahabi
15:00
22:00
ONSITE DATES
We will be in the park from 1st August – 24th August 2024.
ACCESS TO THE PARK
Outside of our main site, park users will still have access to the rest of the Park, including the sports centre, museum and car park between 1st August and 24th August; however, on show days a one-way system will be implemented in the car park for safety reasons. We will be providing stewards and installing barriers in and near the car park to direct both event-related and regular traffic. We will be using the car park during this time for accessibility ticket holders parking, and taxi and Uber pick up and drop off.
SITE BOUNDARY
Please see our site perimeter and main production route outlined on the map below (the production route from gate E is shared between all events taking place in the park):
There will be crossing points on the trackway to facilitate passage for regular park users. These will be managed by stewards who will be instructed accordingly.
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
We work closely with local councils, emergency services, key stakeholders and our contractors with the aim to cause as little disruption as possible to residents and provide safe access to and exit from the site. Traffic routes will be managed by Offsite Traffic Co-ordinators and marshalled by an experienced traffic management company accordingly.
Event attendees are being encouraged to travel by public transport and we have publicised that there is no parking available at the event or in the local area.
The planned taxi pickup and drop-off will be located within Gunnersbury Park with the aim of minimising traffic in the local area.
We are implementing robust crowd management and dispersal plans to help move customers away from the local area towards public transport hubs as safely, and efficiently as possible. It is expected most attendees will arrive and depart from Acton Town Station.
Whilst ticket holders leave the site, the higher volume of people crossing the A406 to get to Acton Town station will likely result in longer waiting times for traffic at these lights. Details regarding our traffic management plans will be agreed upon with the local authority and released in due course.
Gunnersbury Park Events: Road Closure and Bus Diversion
As part of our traffic management plan for these events, an application has been approved by the appropriate authority to restrict vehicular access to Popes Lanes from the A406 between 21:00 hours and 23:59 hours on each event day (9th, 10th, 11th, 17th and 18th August).
All left-turning traffic from the A406 onto Pope’s Lane will be diverted up to the junction of Gunnersbury Avenue and Baronsmede, then down Gunnersbury Drive to rejoin Pope’s Lane on the other side of the closure. Any other traffic shall continue along the A406 as usual.
The diversion will allow us to manage and maintain an orderly and safe traffic management system within the local area as well keeping our customers safe as they leave the events. Furthermore, the application has also been approved to reduce the impact to local businesses and residents alike.
Please see a map below highlighting the closure point and any relevant signage in place for the diversion:
TRANSPORT
We anticipate that, during the day, there will be minimal impact on public transport on event days due to phased arrivals, although it is anticipated that the stations will be slightly busier than normal.
The train and tube stations closest to the event will be much busier than normal from approximately 20:30 – 00:00 on the August event dates.
Please consider you may need to allow more time for your journey when travelling at these times.
The following stations are expected to be busier than normal:
Acton Town
Kew Bridge
Ealing Broadway
South Ealing
BUSES
PLEASE NOTE: the E3 will be diverted on 9-11 and 17-18 August. Diversion as follows:
ROUTE E3
From 1330
WESTBOUND – towards Greenford From High Street Acton at Gunnersbury Lane will divert via ahead Uxbridge Road, ahead The Broadway, left High Street at Ealing Broadway, ahead St Marys Road, ahead South Ealing Road, right Popes Lane and back to normal route.
EASTBOUND – towards Chiswick From Little Ealing Road at South Ealing Road will divert via left South Ealing Road, ahead St Marys Road, ahead Bond Street, right New Broadway, ahead The Broadway, ahead The Mall, ahead Uxbridge Road, right A406 Gunnersbury Avenue, left Gunnersbury Lane and back to normal route.
NOISE
We are working with one of the UK’s leading acoustic consultants, Aria Acoustics, who draft and oversee our noise management plan (NMP) and will be on and offsite to monitor sound levels on event days.
There will be agreed volume levels monitored by our acoustic consultants and approved by the local authority. All concerts have a 10:30 pm music curfew.
If you have any noise-related issues or queries at any point during a show or the build period, you can get in touch via the community hotline or dedicated resident email address.
SOUND CHECKS
Sound checks will take place on each of the event days prior to opening and on the day before the first event day. No sound checks will take place earlier than 10:00 am. More information will be posted on our dedicated resident webpage closer to the event dates.
SECURITY
There will be stewarding directly outside the event and in the surrounding areas, especially during the egress phase. There will be response teams available to respond to any calls made to the community hotline.
Resident tickets
We have recently released the winners of the ballot for the complimentary tickets to our events for local residents within our approved catchment area. All winners will receive their tickets by Friday 2nd August.
LITTER PICKING
We want to be good neighbours and will arrange for additional cleaning in the local area, both within the park and off-site, with additional litter pickers covering a wide range of roads and streets. We have agreed on locations for additional toilets to be deployed close to Acton Town Station as well as on the routes out within the park. Additional signage will be deployed to advise event goers on toilet locations.
CONTACT DETAILS
We are very happy to speak to you about any concerns or queries you may have in the coming months and during the event via our Community Liaison Coordinator. You can email us at [email protected].
Our resident coordinator will be available during all live events on: 0203 781 0001
The above is the same number as last year.
We have 3 hotline handsets, if one is engaged it will redirect to the others.
WE CANNOT RESPOND TO AN ISSUE IF WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT IT – WE ASK THAT YOU PLEASE CONTACT OUR HOTLINE FOR ANY ISSUES RELATED TO ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, SOUND, LITTER, TRAFFIC ETC.
We will do our best to respond to emails within 48 hours in the lead up to the event and then daily on event days.
IT IS MUCH QUICKER TO PHONE DURING EVENT DAYS THAN IT IS TO EMAIL.
PHONE LINE OPERATIONAL AS BELOW:
BUILD: 08:00 – 20:00 FROM WEDNESDAY 31 JULY TO 8 AUGUST AND FROM 12-16 AUGUST LIVE SHOW DAYS: BETWEEN 08:00 – 00:00 BREAK: 08:00 – 20:00 FROM 19-24 AUGUST
If you have any queries or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Thank you, The Festival Republic Gunnersbury Park Events Team