

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: No To Blackweir Live: Open Meeting 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: An open meeting to discuss the council's unethical decision to use Blackweir Fields for a series of music events. 


Cardiff Council has chosen to use Blackweir Fields in Bute Park for a series of huge gigs with absolutely no consultation with any of the local residents (including the homes that border the park, the care home, Nazareth House, on Colum Road, and the retirement housing complex, Hope Court, on North Road), nor any of the community groups associated with the park, regardless of what they have been claiming to the press.

The very few attempts at engagement have been forced by the community, well after the fact.

This will mean:

Blackweir Fields being fenced off (with 3 metre high steel festival fencing) and inaccessible for the duration of the events;

'Temporary' bridges at each of the side gates-trees have already been cut down to accommodate these, and elsewhere around the site, including many that were healthy and part of ancient woodland;

Increased traffic &amp; parking chaos around the park &amp; surrounding areas;

Cycle lanes &amp; parts of the Taff Trail being closed for the duration of the events;

The cricket &amp; football pitches being inaccessible for the duration of the events, and likely unusable for at least the rest of the year;

A potentially huge increase in anti-social behaviour;

Unacceptable noise levels until late at night;

Potential for damage to the community orchard;

Soil compaction from both heavy machinery &amp; five lots of 35000+ people, leading to destruction of soil life, plus flooding &amp; run-off into the adjacent River Taff;

Destruction of vital wildlife habitat, including many species of bats &amp; owls (whose hunting &amp; mating will also be disturbed, or prevented, by the noise levels &amp; lighting), as well as other nesting birds including green woodpeckers, goldcrests, song &amp; mistle thrushes, and the swifts &amp; swallows often seen swooping over the fields hunting insects; plus foxes, hedgehogs, and various amphibians. 
Blackweir Fields are also home to a number of plant &amp; fungi species, including waxcaps, which are currently a rare &amp; threatened species.

Bute Park's own website says that "This beautiful woodland is designated as a Site of Interest for Nature Conservation (SINC) because of its importance to wildlife in Cardiff."

The council are, so far, also ignoring the recommendations of the Environmental Impact Reports they commissioned, that were undertaken in February of this year, and last, which stated that further surveys should be performed later in the year, before the events, as many of the species mentioned were still in hibernation at that time. 


While we do not object to smaller events being held on park grounds, on the established event space in Coopers Field, we believe that these gigs being held on Blackweir are a step too far, and should not go ahead here.

Please join us to discuss what has been done so far, and to plan further action.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cardiff/no-to-blackweir-live-open-meeting/200028226014649
- **Event Categories**: sports, meetups, festivals, trips-adventures, nonprofit, football
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 79

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200028226014649?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=cardiff-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Cardiff
- **state**: WA
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Cathays Youth & Community Centre
- **lat**: 51.49173703053
- **long**: -3.1807247640531
- **full address**: Cathays Youth &amp; Community Centre, 45 Catherine Street, Cardiff, CF24 4EF, United Kingdom,Cardiff

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: No To Blackweir Live (https://allevents.in/org/no-to-blackweir-live/25749295)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Jun, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Cathays Youth &amp; Community Centre, 45 Catherine Street, Cardiff, CF24 4EF, United Kingdom,Cardiff
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** No To Blackweir Live
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** sports, meetups, festivals, trips-adventures, nonprofit, football
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about No To Blackweir Live: Open Meeting  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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