Stratford residents fear planned MSG Sphere concert hall will ruin their sleep with light pollution
An image of how a MSG Sphere could look in Stratford, east London, during a concert.East London residents are being warned that light pollution from ahuge new concert venue – the MSG Sphere – will be “like a sun on Earth”. The message comes from neighbours of a Las Vegas version, more than 5,000 miles away.Legacy Development Corporation approved plans for its advertising display covered with more than one million light emitting diodes that will show videos and adverts from dawn until late.
Plans for the more residential setting of Stratford – which include a 21,500-capacity concert hall the width of the London Eye and the height of Big Ben, a nightclub, shops and restaurants – are seeing significant opposition, with the proposed venue labelled as a. The site is an empty plot of land between Stratford railway station and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Meanwhile, MSG boss James Dolan has attracted headlines in the US over his use of facial recognition technology. Last month,that Madison Square Garden in New York was using cameras to ban employees of law firms that are handling cases against MSG properties. The billionaire broke his silence on the issue last week, citing the Bill of Rights on the US morning talkshow, hitting out at officials and saying that, as the venue’s owner, his actions were valid.
It’s too big, it would be too intrusive. I would ask that they call it in, and scale it right down or reject itPointing out that, unlike Las Vegas, Stratford is “not in the middle of a desert”, she added: “We are talking about a very urban environment.” Bo Chapman, Stratford resident and a member of the Against MSG Group since 2019, said that when she first saw a poster for the “globular monster” she thought it was a joke. The community digital artist, who has lived in the area since 1997, said: “It’s an unethical monstrosity. It’s a great concept but it’s in the completely wrong place. It’s another example of corporations getting profit at the expense of communities.
Asked whether it would use facial recognition in London, the company said it is not yet at the stage of confirming such systems and procedures and that they would be “subject to discussion and agreement with the relevant authorities”.
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