Notting Hill Carnival Strategic Review - Intelligent Space

West-East “Ell” Route: the West-East “Ell” route
option would take the Carnival procession down
Ladbroke Grove and then extend along Westbourne
Grove and Bishops Bridge Road before turning South
along Eastbourne Terrace. Two possible locations for
the judging point were suggested, with one at the
“Five Ways” junction and one on Bishops Bridge
road. As a linear route, the West-East Ell option
presupposes that resources will be found for the
logistical problem of transporting carnivalists back to
base.
East-West “Ell”: the East West Ell route option can
be seen below. For this route, the floats and “mas”
bands would travel in the opposite direction to the
current route and the West East Ell. Whereas the
West-East Ell proposed two alternative judging
points, the East-West variant proposed one judging
point, to be located at the “Five Ways” junction. It is
also slightly shorter than the West-East version. As
with the W-E Ell route, this route would require a
transit system for carnivalists off-route, but in the
case of the E-W Ell this would be more focused on
transit to the route, as most base camps are
apparently close to the end of the route around
Ladbroke Grove.
Reverse Park Route: this route can be seen below.
Whereas the original proposal for this route was to
move towards Hyde Park, the proposal from the
Stakeholders put forward at their October
Conference was with the opposite direction of flow
on this option, with the floats travelling from the
park area in an Northwesterly direction. The location
of the judging point was left ambiguous by the
Stakeholders. As with the other more linear routes,
the implementation of this route also requires a
solution to carnivalist transit, if the potential
improvements to the safety associated with a more
linear route are to be realised.
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