This advance warning is published for the attention of all residents living in roads close to the London Irish Hazelwood grounds off Green Street.
Following the parking problems at the time of last year's London Irish Mini Festival, the Vice-chairman LOSRA met with the Chairman of the Amateur RFC on 18th May 2015 to explore ways of reducing the nuisance of blocked streets and driveways which resulted from inconsiderate parking by visitors to the Festival.
This year’s festival will be held on Sunday 24th April 2016 and the numbers of attendee’s are envisaged to be similar to last year. The busiest time for traffic will be 8am to 10.30am, peaking between 9 - 10am as teams arrive for a 10.am start. The event has a staggered finish from approximately 2pm (age group dependent), with the last games finishing about 4pm.
In his recent email to LOSRA, Eric Griffith, the Chairman LIAFC wrote:
"L. Irish will be putting in place the same level of car parking planning and provision as last year, as well as improvements based on feedback received. Visiting teams will be directed a week before the event to use public transport, car share as much as possible and that parking on local streets in not available, and to use Kempton Park. Please be assured we will do all that is reasonably within our control to manage the traffic flow, direct attendee’s to designated parking at Kempton Park and to use the shuttle service, but we have no legal rights to enforce no parking areas,….we rely on the goodwill, cooperation and common-sense of our visitors."
Having to rely on the 'goodwill, cooperation and common-sense of our visitors' is about as much as can be expected and much will depend on how efficiently the visiting clubs communicate with their individual members. We shall see....
