Noise Warning Ahead of Gunnersbury Park Festivals
Three days include Annie Mac, Waterworks and DnB All Stars
A previous year’s Waterworks Festival in Gunnersbury Park. Picture: Instagram
September 12, 2024
The management of Gunnersbury Park has issued a warning about possible noise disruption from three days of events taking place over the weekend.
Annie Mac’s Before Midnight is taking place on Friday (13 September), the Waterworks Festival is on Saturday (14 September) and the DnB All Stars Festival is on Sunday (15 September).
The park has employed a sound consultant Vanguardia which has been monitoring weather conditions based on updates from the Met Office and it has issued a report on likely noise levels. An analysis has been done of wind direction to determine which neighbourhoods around the park are most likely to be affected by the noise.
On Friday, when former BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac will be playing a mixture of dance music from chart hits to lesser-known artists, the temperature will be around 16 C⁰ and sunny intervals are expected with light winds from the west and north west. This will tend to suppress the noise from the event to the west and north west of the park e.g. Ealing and South Ealing and increase the spread of noise to the east and south east of the park e.g. South Acton and Chiswick.
For the Waterworks Festival on Saturday the temperature is expected to be 17 C⁰ with clouds, and light winds from the south west. This will tend to suppress the noise from the event for South Ealing and Chiswick and but increase the spread of noise to the east and north east of the park affecting Acton.
On Sunday, there will be seven stages and over one hundred artists performing at the DnB All Stars Festival. Some light rain is forecast with temperatures at 18 C⁰ . A ‘gentle’ breeze will come breeze from the west & south west tending to suppress the noise from the event in areas such as South Ealing and Chiswick and moderately increasing the noise in Acton. This will be the last major festival of 2024.
The area around the Old Cricket Pitches at the southern end of the park has been fenced off and is inaccessible to general park users, but the rest of the park will remain open to the public with access to the museum, sports centre and other facilities.
The park’s management says it will be monitoring sound levels throughout the event on site and at off-site monitoring locations pre-agreed with the council. Council representatives have been invited to attend pre-event sound checks.
If you are disturbed by noise from events at Gunnersbury Park as well as the help line (020 3781 0001) you can report it to Hounslow Pollution Control team on this link.
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