Greenwich’s Peninsula Festival will now kick off a week later than planned after a second event was cancelled. If it Ain’t Dutch, it Ain’t Much! had been due to bring DJs to the festival site on Wednesday, but has been cancelled due to “circumstances beyond our control”. The Peninsula Festival will now start on Friday, […]
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Oranjecamping pulls out of Greenwich Olympic campsite
853 exclusive: Plans for an Olympic campsite on Greenwich Peninsula are being scaled back after Dutch firm Oranjecamping pulled out of the project just weeks before its planned opening date. Tickets are still being sold for Oranjecamping London, but the firm will now no longer be operating the site, whose backers hoped to attract 4,000 […]
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Greenwich Council funds Peninsula Festival after denying it
Something this website has missed over the past couple of months is the upturn in fortunes for the Peninsula Festival – after being comprehensively refused licences in September, plans for concerts on a patch of land between the Pilot pub and the A102 were approved last December, proposals for a campsite have also been backed […]
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Peninsula Festival refused licences by Greenwich Council
In a way, it’s a major shock. But if you were in Woolwich Town Hall yesterday, it’ll come as no surprise at all. Greenwich Council’s licensing committee has refused permission for the four Peninsula Festival licences – meaning no beach, no 20,000-capacity gigs, no campsite, and no “business lounge” on the Greenwich Peninsula during next […]
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Greenwich’s Peninsula Festival aims for 45,000-capacity gigs
Backers of the Peninsula Festival have applied to Greenwich Council to hold 45,000-capacity concerts on an empty plot of land in the week before the Olympics. They want four shows to be held between 19 and 26 July 2012, with eight smaller concerts during the Olympics period itself. The application, for the land bounded by […]
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Meet the man behind the Peninsula Festival
Frank Dekker walks along the riverside path, and gestures towards Canary Wharf. He’s sketching out a scheme for his planned beach on the Greenwich Peninsula. Why not get a sponsor to fund a water flume on the beach? “It’s limited only by our imaginations and what we can make happen commercially. The cost of a […]
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