The new Crystal Palace Park Trust has pledged to fix the ‘rusty laptop’ stage and toilets after it takes over in 2023.

The South London park has been promised huge investment in the coming years, the new group taking over have insisted.

Crystal Palace Park Trust, which will be running the park from April 2023 onwards, has revealed its ambition to improve some of the facilities throughout the space.

Bill LoSasso, the chief executive of the trust, has underlined his group’s commitment to improving the famous and popular park after Bromley Council set into motion plans to transfer the running of it from next year.

Mr LoSasso told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “Once the Trust assumes management of the park, we’ll bring in new maintenance contractors to devote all of our energy into the park.

"One thing I wanted to note which is particularly exciting, is the concert platform, known affectionately as the ‘Rusty Laptop’, the Trust will be taking a lease to that sometime this spring or summer and we’re going to completely renovate the structure, which has been unused for some time now.

“We began that last year with the South-Facing Festival.

"Very soon we’ll be replacing the actual stage and concert platform and investing probably more than £200,000 in the next couple of years to not only restore it as a premier event venue within South London, but to really activate it as a place for community event.”

This will come along with investments in the form of a brand new changing places toilet, which will be more accessible to people with disabilities, and an improvement of the existing toilets which have been labelled “gross” and “rotten” by locals.

Mr LoSasso said: “We do acknowledge that the toilets are in need of renovation.

"This is one of the many projects the Trust is considering.

"We stay in very close communication with the community and we are aware there is a widely-held belief that the toilets should be renovated.

"We are excited to improve the entire park.”

Mr LoSasso, who has been in the CEO of the trust since July, said he hopes the group will raise more income which then goes directly back into the park.

The announcements from the Trust comes ahead of a potentially big year for Crystal Palace Park.

Reports in November said London Mayor Sadiq Khan is expected to bring forward a multi-million pound package to fix the popular Crystal Palace pool after it fell into disrepair.

And the park is set to host Wireless Festival for the second time this summer.

Mr Losasso says the group hope to bring a “diversity of events” to the park once they are in full control of the events programme.

But he added they only had the capacity to do a Wireless-sized festival once a year.

He said: “What we really want to do is bring a diversity of events in the park. So we can try to make sure we have something for everybody.

"I think one thing that is really interesting about the park is that its original genesis is an events space.

"That’s why the park was built and the Crystal Palace was located there.

“We work really hard to strike the right balance and something as large as the Wireless Festival is as big as it will get.

"We will only do something like that once a year, we don’t believe that there’s capacity for anything more than that.”

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