Hyde Park concerts get green light

Westminster Council has agreed that Live Nation’s series of nine Hyde Park concerts scheduled for July 2012 including shows from Brice Springsteen and Madonna to go ahead, but with only four allowed to have capacities of 65,000 after numerous complaints from local residents. The other five concerts will be limited to 50,000 people. The decision also means that the planned 18 free events around the London Olympic,s in Hyde Park, Victoria park and Trafalgar Square will also be able to go ahead – Live Nation had said that free events depended on the Hyde Park concerts. But Westminster have set strict noise limits of 75 dB measured in the adjoining Park Lane and breaches would result in a review of events in 2013. Live Nation’s John Probyn who had previously said that "if the Hyde Park licence has any new conditions like reducing the noise level, capacity or number of events, not pnly do we lose our regular concerts but Olympic events to" said the decision was a ‘fantastic result”