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[crystal palace fireworks]

Ok Peeps, I would really appreciate your thoughts/ideas or criticisms.

As we know, it is unlawful for the general public to let-off fireworks in public places, and given it is somewhat restrictive that some of us live in apartments or have small back gardens to let off Cat 3 & 2 etc with regard to proper safety distances etc.

Would it not be a good idea for local councils to provide the public with designated firework launching areas in our public parks or some other open fields on special occasions?.

[exat808]

Ok Peeps, I would really appreciate your thoughts/ideas or criticisms.

As we know, it is unlawful for the general public to let-off fireworks in public places, and given it is somewhat restrictive that some of us live in apartments or have small back gardens to let off Cat 3 & 2 etc with regard to proper safety distances etc.

Would it not be a good idea for local councils to provide the public with designated firework launching areas in our public parks or some other open fields on special occasions?.

What about liability issues? Is a local authority going to be 100% confident that there will no major claims against it for injury or damage caused by a member of the public that it had permitted to set off fireworks from council property. I think that the coucil will be wanting to see some liability insurance from you just as Cat4 displays.
Privately owned land is a different kettle of fish. Find a landowner, agree terms and discuss liability, sign a simple agreement, off you go.

[phildunford]

So how about it chaps?

Any volunteers with a nice bit of land and friendly neighbours.

Think this would be particularly well recieved by inner city chaps such as myself and Keith with not much space.

Could make it a little UKPS/forum do...

Edited by phildunford, 18 September 2010 - 08:36 PM.

[crystal palace fireworks]

What about liability issues? Is a local authority going to be 100% confident that there will no major claims against it for injury or damage caused by a member of the public that it had permitted to set off fireworks from council property. I think that the coucil will be wanting to see some liability insurance from you just as Cat4 displays.
Privately owned land is a different kettle of fish. Find a landowner, agree terms and discuss liability, sign a simple agreement, off you go.

Im no expert on insurance or land law and its implications, but my thinking was along the lines that this could or would be become a regular local community event run by the council for its local people who want to say celebrate Nov 5th, and as such would be covered by the councils own public liability insurances, or perhaps the public insurance could covered by local business sponsorship through advertising.

There could also be proviso`s built-in, for instance, designated firers would have to wear PPE, or sign a waver for personal injury claims from the council.

The council could provide; sandbags, wooden post for catherine wheels & rocket racks etc, dig shallow trenches, provide wooden stakes & tape or dampen down fall out areas.

The large public parks or common land could be sectioned off into 4 or more seperate areas to include cat 3, cat2, (each area would have a number firing bays that would be booked for an hour or so before the event), bonfire area, food eating area, public viewing areas.

BPA 1 or 2 firers, cat 4 course attendee`s, explosives experts, st johns ambulance brigade could offer there services to the general public on site by way of supervision = this could be voluntary or paid for through public council tax.

In essense, you literally would be watching tens of thousands of other peoples fireworks as well as your own.

There probably would have to be a change/update in the firework regulations to include `special events` for the letting-off fireworks by the public in a public place via a license.

Maybe more people will eventually attended these type of events, I guess the pay-off could be less noise in built up areas = less complaints from the animal rights brigade & anti-firework lobbyists.

The other upshot could be an increase in retail fireworks & community involvement.

What do you guys think?