Neighbours complain 15,000 capacity K-pop festival in Wembley 'will stop children studying'

A enactment has breached retired implicit plans for a 15,000-capacity K-pop festival successful westbound London arsenic it whitethorn forestall children from studying for their summertime exams.

Complaints from 170 residents person been sent to Brent Council complaining astir the Made successful Korea Festival (MIK), which could instrumentality spot connected the play of June 7-8 astatine Northwick Park successful Wembley.

Council documents amusement that 15,250 partygoers, performers and unit could beryllium allowed connected the tract during the festival.

But neighbours person raised a scope of concerns from children being blocked from utilizing the engaged playground astatine the parkland to worries astir “thousands of perchance drunken people”.

In 1 lawsuit a adjacent nonmigratory wrote: “GCSEs and A-levels [sic] tally from 8th May to 24th June 2025.

“Not definite if the children astir would privation to beryllium proceeding a festival going connected portion they are trying to study. This lawsuit should beryllium pushed for aft the UK acquisition examinations are over.

“This would beryllium causing nationalist nuisance to children who person nationalist exams to sit.

“The disturbance could origin children harm owed to the fearfulness of not performing well.”

Another nonmigratory referenced the dates of the GCSE exams and added: “This is simply a sizeable nationalist nuisance contented to beryllium considered, and could ruin the beingness chances of those affected, each for a performance successful a park.”

A 3rd nonmigratory insisted: “There volition beryllium galore young students studying for their summertime exams and this festival and the sound contamination it volition pull volition severely interaction their revision programme.

“Northwick Park besides neighbours the assemblage and truthful volition interaction immoderate section exams held connected the premises.”

Other neighbours person besides raised concerns astir the biology interaction of the festival, peculiarly for bats during their “peak breading month”.

A resident, who said they person worked successful bat conservation for 40 years, complained to Brent Council: “They volition either beryllium successful an precocious signifier of gestation oregon person already had their babies.

“A captious play for them. Any disturbance oregon deliberate injurious enactment is simply a transgression offence. Conditions preventing them foraging oregon feeding, causing them harm, could represent an offence.”

MIK archetypal ran successful 2022 astatine Southwark Park, though residents besides voiced their displeasure implicit the sound and disruption. Plans for a 2023 variation of the festival were scrapped aft escalating costs and debased summons sales.

Brent Council is owed to marque a determination connected the festival’s exertion connected February 4.