How come they would not issue a permit so close to the date surely these things are sorted weeks in advance?
Do you mean the notting hill carnival? Bt of a differnece in sheer scale 1 to 2 million people at the notting hill carnival and they quite often have stages and areas of the carnival closed down early or even cancelled or denied permission due to health and safety concerns.
I think it was last year on the saturday and the police and stewards were not happy at how quickly some of the stalls were closing down from what i saw first hand.
Plenty were selling booze when only i think one or two venues had a license.
A shame but there you go hopefully the organisers will sort it out for next year.
