The answer is simple. We need to deploy the private contractors that fine people for dropping litter at these events. Once a few hundred people have been fined there will be an outcry, the word will get round and less litter will be dropped at these events.
Secondly, the festival organisers should be required to pay a "reset" deposit to cover the cost of returning the venue even if it is the whole Uxbridge Road to its original pre-event state.
Thirdly, having watched the Council Events Team destroy the Jazz Festival over a couple of decades turning it from a pleasant open experience for Ealing residents where you could picnic into a commercialised eventmanagementstaff-career-building experience involving dozens of police, sniffer dogs and cage-like fences to encourage the rats within to turn on each other I would suggest that the whole Council Events, Public Relations, and Marketing Teams are outsourced to private contractors. None of this flim-flam is core to the health of the local community and as long as cuts in care to the disadvantaged are being imposed we have no right to spend public money on entertainment. There are plenty of agencies who do this well (unlike carers and related services) and framkly if the agency is no good no one will die, the event just won't be very good. To make this work all you need to do is to let out the venue to the organisers and take a huge upfront deposit that is refundable when litter, police, etc., unexpected incidentals are deducted. No full-time staff in the Council. Oh and getting rid of the decorative mayoral function whould also fit into this PR/Marketing/Events unnecesary for human well-being heading so lets downsizee that function too. Put the money into welfare, roads, pavements, and rat control. |