Comments on: Formula E in Battersea Park: never again? https://jamescousins.com/2015/06/formula-e-in-battersea-park-never-again/ A (micro.)blog without a purpose. Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:33:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: James Cousins https://jamescousins.com/2015/06/formula-e-in-battersea-park-never-again/#comment-29006 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:33:30 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=9947#comment-29006 In reply to Paul.

If this is seen as a success by Wandsworth the risk is that other events requiring full closure may well follow, so it wouldn’t just be the Formula E month of disruption.

And I really am surprised by Friends of Battersea Park. I thought they’d be incredibly vocal about this.

]]> By: Paul https://jamescousins.com/2015/06/formula-e-in-battersea-park-never-again/#comment-29005 Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:55:00 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=9947#comment-29005 WBC have ominously indicated (recent FOI) they want an option to re-compete after the five year contract expires, so I think it unlikely Formula E will ever leave Battersea Park if it survives this nightmarish first experience. The residents will then timeshare Battersea Park for 11 months a year and hand it over for a month, at the height of Summer, to a decade of car racing here.

The park revenue received barely covers a single (Hay Pay Grade 2 or 3) salary of a WBC director who hides in a back office avoiding contact with residents endangered during this casual chaotic and dangerous construction phase.

It is an unnatural and perverse act to squeeze technology into a historic Heritage 2* Victorian Park given the size of London and then negligent to hide in an office at a time of danger preferring to tweet idyllic park scenes as a grand act of self-denial and hubris.

I read that I am represented in consultations by “The Friends of Battersea Park”, I don’t know who they are, but with friends like that, I really don’t need enemies.

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