The Royal Parks operator has announced that the popular open space will be closed from 10 pm to 6 am on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from this event (April 11) to October.
Primrose Hillin opened 24 hours a day on weekdays unless closures are needed for health and safety reasons or due to extreme climatic conditions.
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The work to install doors to prevent antisocial behavior began on March 24.
The “antistnetic” fencing that has a bone used in recent years to support the closures and demolished regularly, now it has left.
The decision will not please everyone. A commitment survey conducted by the Royal Parks at the end of 2022 showed a mixed response of the park users about the plans to block the park during the night.
About 46% or 1,257 respondents said that the park should never be closed or should only be closed for operational reasons, such as the duration of extreme climate or events such as Halloween.
The rest supported some form of night closures, either seven days a week or only on weekends.
The decision to install permanently increased again in January 2024 after Harry Pitman was stabbed until death in the park on the eve of the New Year.
Darren Share, director of Parks in Royal Parks, said: “We have completed jobs to install doors in Primrose Hill, to support parks closures when necessary.
“The new doors are in line with the landscape that quotes in grade II and with other similar doors that we have in our parks and we have replaced the use of the strengths of temporary and expensive fences of Herass and expensive to support the years in the dams.
“The Gates installation does not mean that the park will be closed more frequently. We are coining the current opening agreements of the week and we continue with the weekend summer closures as we have done during the last four years.”
