I just had a call from a member of the Upton Farm Preservation Network. She was concerned about this line in a Guardian story about a possible concert next summer:
Upton Farm is the desired location for the 2008 show, a piece of property that is split in half by the Trans-Canada Highway at Mayfield. The concert would take place on the south side, in behind the Maypoint Road.
This is the second time the Guardian has wrongly identified this as the proposed venue. This part of the farm has never been considered as a location for a concert. It is the north side of the farm that is under consideration, immediately west of where the bypass highway meets the Upton Road [view on map]. I’m sure this is causing a lot of unnecessary stress to residents in the Maypoint/Orchard Hill Park area. I’ve asked the Guardian to correct the online version of the story and print a correction in tomorrow’s paper.
I had no idea that this was the location: I’d been wrongly assuming that the proposed concert venue was on the immediate right as you drove west past the lights in front of the Maypoint Plaza.
Close. At least you had the right side of the highway.