Highbury East Liberal Democrats

On Wednesday 13 March 2008 the council held the final AFC Liaison Committee held at Emirates Stadium. 

The Liaison Committee was chaired by Ken Friar OBE (Director of Arsenal FC). In attendance were senior managers and representatives from all the partners that are involved in the  operations for the stadium on a match day (Transport for London, the Metropolitan Police, and the British Transport Police). A number of resident and business groups from the local community attended as well as the Arsenal FC supporters association. 

The meeting consisted of a presentation of the results from the monitoring programme for the 2006/07 football season. The headline result of the monitoring are that Arsenal FC have achieved a transport modal split target of 12.5% for the 60,000 spectators travelling to the stadium by modes of transport other than private cars. This compares favourably with the council’s requirement of 20% or below. 

A question and answer session followed the presentation allowing for an open forum to discuss a number of hot topics that are currently issues for the local community. This allowed the stakeholders to directly address a variety of questions raised by the local community and the council will now look at dealing with further problems. 

Further information on this and previous AFC Liaison Committee meetings can be found at www.islington.gov.uk/arsenal. 

For further information please contact Neil Huddart on ext 1826 or e-mail neil.huddart@islington.gov.uk.