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The Kenwood stage rides again
KENWOOD’S summer concerts could return next year with a new location for the stage to reduce noise leakage, it was revealed this week.
Kenwood House guardians English Heritage and IMG, who stage the concerts for the House, floated the idea of the new stage at a crunch meeting to discuss the future of the concerts on Tuesday.
The new stage would be moved further away from residents’ homes in Fitzroy Park and positioned in the Pasture Ground, at the bottom of the slopes behind the Orangery and in front of Wood Pond.
The idea was one of two options put before residents group’s representatives and concert objectors invited to the House by
English Heritage for the private meeting.
The second was that residents accept the original conditions proposed by English Heritage last year allowing them to stage 10 concerts at the House with a single respite weekend in between.
Concert chiefs hope that renewed consultation with residents and concert objectors would allow them to reach a compromise solution in order to bring the season back next year.
English Heritage visitor operations director Rebecca Kane said: “We were able to make some headway in some of the things that were discussed so it was the start of a very positive process”.
Heath and Hampstead Society representative Tony Ghilchik, who also attended the meeting, said: “It was a good meeting. We hope the message got across that we want the concerts to continue but on the basis they were held a couple of years ago – more concerts but stricter noise regulations.”
The meeting was the first with residents since English Heritage chiefs controversially axed this year’s season last month.
They claimed it was no longer “financially viable” after being forced to axe two concerts by licensing chiefs after repeated complaints from residents about excessive noise.
Ms Kane sad that concert chiefs would now look at holding a wider meeting with residents in order to continue the consultation process.
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