Overview
- Hillingdon Council's Licensing Sub-committee granted the licence on Thursday after council officers and the Metropolitan Police formally withdrew their earlier objections.
- The ticketed, alcohol-free festival will take place on Sunday June 14 at Sky-Ex Community Stadium in Hayes and will run from 11am to 8pm.
- Organisers say the event will be headlined by Sunanda Sharma, expect about 2,000 visitors across the day with a maximum of 1,500 on site, and will include a truck stage, market stalls and a seated area of roughly 800 folding chairs.
- Safety measures submitted to the council include 30 qualified security staff, two paramedics with an ambulance, an emergency evacuation plan and a traffic management plan while planned inflatables and children’s rides have been dropped.
- The withdrawal of objections came after revised documents were filed but the brief six-minute hearing did not set out the specific changes, leaving some unanswered questions about how earlier concerns over crime, noise and food safety were addressed and signalling that licensing decisions can hinge on written assurances rather than public detail.