Gunnersbury used to be in Brentford ward which I represented but it has been moved by the Boundaries Commission into a new ward - Chiswick Gunnersbury.I used to engage closely with events in Gunnersbury - repeated meetings with the organisers, the management team for the park, local residents, council officers. I remember being in somebody's garden in Lionel Road who had a noise monitoring device placed in his garden by the noise consultants the council had asked them to place around the area.I also remember cycling around the perimeter of the park when it was on and finding very little noise except down near Chiswick roundabout. I was surprised to hear later that the noise had spread to parts of Grove Park - quite a long way from GP - when you couldn't hear anything in Popes Lane. The wind has a surprisingly big effect.Whether anybody pays close attention now, I don't know. It's important for ward councillors to engage because the professionals have different priorities - protection of attendees, prevention of crime, objective analysis of noise - but these are often not what upsets neighbours. These are more about litter, disruption of traffic/parking, noisy people heading for a station etc.
Guy Lambert ● 587d