News from Kit Malthouse: Eight weeks of disruption for Hyde Park residents is unacceptable - Kit Malthouse AM

Kit Malthouse AM is concerned residents near Hyde Park may face severe disruption before, during and after the Olympics (totalling eight weeks) because of the creation of a so-called ‘Live Site’ in Hyde Park, which will show the 2012 Games on huge outdoors screens.

This morning, Westminster’s London Assembly Member, Mr Malthouse put residents’ fears to Neale Coleman, Director of London 2012 Coordination, the senior official responsible for coordinating the capital’s Live Sites.

The set-up for the Live Site in Hyde Park will begin on 2 July and it will not be completely removed until 24 August 2012, a full eight weeks later.  It has also emerged that a number of large rock concerts will be staged at the site in Hyde Park before the opening of the Games. 

Commenting, Mr Malthouse said: “I am extremely concerned that people living near Hyde Park will face eight weeks of disruption next summer because of the Live Site in the Park.

“Turning on big screens showing the Games at 7.30am some mornings and not turning them off until midnight, with 80,000 people attending, may to stop residents getting a decent night’s sleep. If these sites are not properly handled and controlled they could make peoples’ lives a misery.

“I want the organisers to make sure that the plans for the Live Site in Hyde Park have taken local residents into account and remembered that residents could be severely disrupted by these proposals.”

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