Telford & Wrekin Council plan more events in 2014
Telford & Wrekin Council say they are committed to holding similar events next year following the success of the T-Live and T-Party over the last two weekends.
T-Live was the first outdoor gig to be held in the Town Park’s Arena for many years and formed a part of the hugely successful T-Party event the previous weekend, which included a range of free community events.
Both T-Party and T-Live offered a range of events for residents while helping to put Telford on the map as an exciting place to visit for all the family.
The town centre is already at the heart of the £250m Southwater development which will open next spring, while the Town Park is growing its appeal, with the new water play area and an aerial ropes course set to open later this year.
At T-Live more than 3,000 people music from local bands, The Making and M.A.D.I.S.O.N., support acts, Stooshe, Luminites and Loveable Rogues, and headliners, McFly.
Telford & Wrekin Council leader, Kuldip Sahota, said:
“We’ve had so much positive feedback about both events and many people urging us to do it all again next year.
“We are fully committed to hosting a similar series of events again next year and the buzz surrounding this year’s T-festivals will continue as we build Telford’s reputation as a place where exciting events happen and that people want to visit.
“There was definitely a learning curve in our first year but we will be able to take lessons from this and make sure that next year is even better.
“We now have a very strong platform on which we can now build as we start planning for 2014 and with a very proven format to take to promoters.
“I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in the two weekends for making them happen and for their success, to everyone at the council who worked on or volunteered for this event and to event management company Seventh Sense, to Cineworld and Telford Shopping Centre for supporting us, to the bands, the stallholders and to everyone who attended and helped to create a fantastic atmosphere on the day.”
Not everyone has been positive about the recent events, UKIP Telford & Wrekin has criticised the council over the T-Live concert.
UKIP Parish Councillor for Brookside, Stuart Parr, said:
“The price of the tickets were out of reach of most local families. In these austere times, there aren’t many families who can afford to spend £120 or more for a concert. My family would have loved to have gone but it would have cost us £176 just for the tickets. With so many households in the borough turning to the Food Bank because they can’t afford to eat, it is a disgrace that our council tax has been used to subsidise a concert that most of us couldn’t afford to go to.”
Chairman of UKIP Telford & Wrekin and Wellington Town Councillor, Denis Allen, said:
“Councillors and council officers shouldn’t be organising concerts, it should be left to professionals. The council should apologise for wasting taxpayers’ money on this concert and give an undertaking to hand over running of any more of these events to a professional event management company and let them take the financial risk, not the hardworking council taxpayers of Telford & Wrekin.”
