The community led group Protect Brockwell Park (PBP) have announced it will be challenging Lambeth Council’s decision to allow large-scale major events held at the south London park.
In a statement posted alongside a crowdfunding campaign, PBP said that its latest challenged is “about protecting Brockwell Park by trying to ensure events are run lawfully and in a way that respects and prioritises its landscape, ecology and local community.”
“PBP is not against all events, but the current model – large-scale, repeated commercial use with long enclosures – is not sustainable,” the group added.
The announcement comes after BPB successfully won two legal challenges in 2025, with a High Court legal dispute finding that promoter Brockwell Live did not possess the correct planning permission for its summer events. All Brockwell Live events, including Field Day, Mighty Hoopla and more, still went ahead as planned.
In early 2026, Brockwell Live was granted its planning application for all of its summer events this year.
BPB have also claimed that Lambeth Council “is still treating Brockwell Park like a commercial festival venue instead of protected public open space,” and that “it [Lambeth Council] has kept key information from the public and councillors, and ignored its basic duty to look after the park for local people rather than use it for profit.”
