Fort Canning Green closed for returfing
Haven't watched a gig at Fort Canning Green in a while?
That's because the popular concert venue has been closed since Jan 29, when the Laneway Festival was staged there.
The National Parks Board (NParks) told my paper that the one-day music festival damaged the grass turf, after it attracted more than 6,000 concert-goers that wet weekend.
An NParks spokesman said: "The heavy use during the Laneway Festival, compounded by the heavy rain, damaged the green."
It will reopen again in the middle of this month, added the NParks spokesman.
Those who attended the festival remember how the turf was transformed into a large slippery slope of brown mud.
It is not unusual for the venue, which can hold up to 7,000 people, to be closed after a large-scale event, said NParks. This is to allow for returfing, and the "resting of the lawn for about a month for the turf to regenerate", added NParks.
Returfing is typically carried out once a year.
-News courtesy of Omy-
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