Major scale commercial event application - CLOUD X Festival 2025

The event promoter 'Cloud X Sound Ltd' has submitted an event application to hold a brand new, paid-ticketed, three day event in Southwark Park in early July 2025.

Cloud X Sound Ltd is an international music entertainment company, committed to being inclusive and progressive. Built around a London-based record label and set up by LGBT+ & POC founders, David Dabieh and Ben Cross, CLOUD X platforms exceptional artists and develops talent. David & Ben are both proud South Londoners, with David growing up on the Heygate Estate and now living opposite Southwark Park on Lower Road and Ben growing up in Tulse Hill & now living in Nunhead.

The event would take place on the 4-6 July and feature the following programme:

Friday 4 July - CLOUD X Live

Opening hours: 12-10:30pm

Cloud X Live will consist of musicians performing live.

Genres: Pop/HipHop/RnB/Soul & World Music

Saturday 5 July - CLOUD X Festival

Opening hours 12-10:30pm

CLOUD X Festival is a family-friendly event.

Genres: RnB, Soul and Alternative Rap

Sunday 6 July - Reggaeton Festival

Opening hours 12-10pm

Showcasing some of the biggest stars of the Latin community, this event will promote Latin culture and music.

Genres: Latin, Reggaeton, World Music

Further information about event proposals is included in the supporting documents.

In line with the council's Outdoor Events Policy we are consulting with people to get feedback on:

• Whether to issue an events licence
• Event proposals and suggestions about how to improve proposals

We hope to circulate details of this consultation to as many people as possible, in efforts to obtain a diverse range of opinions. Please direct anyone you who you think might be interested in taking part, to this web page.

To further raise awareness, we are also:

• Sending letters to 3,572 properties around the park

• Posting public notices around the park

• Leaving a copy of the consultation documents at the parks Café for viewing when the Café is open

• Posting information on the council’s web page:

Ticketed events in parks | Southwark Council

We will record and review all of the responses we receive and produce a 'consultation findings report'. While individual responses may be referenced in the report, anything that might personally identify a respondent will be removed or redacted. The report will be published, by the 31 March 2025, in the following ways:

• Posting on this web page
• Sending electronically to all contacts on the stakeholder register for Southwark Park
• Sending electronically to all those who have taken part in the consultation and have provided an email address

The Events team at Southwark Council, who are carrying out this consultation, look forward to hearing from you by closing date, 7 March 2025.