Tag: Event Licencing
Protected Wildlife threatens to thwart festival plans
The Event Organisers of a music festival in Wirral face the possibility that protected great crested newts could threaten their plans. Cheshire Wildlife Trust are among those objecting to the current proposals to hold the Hudbu festival for up to 10,000 people at Wirral Rugby Club, near Clatterbridge. A total of 40 individuals, including many [...]
Belfast Event Venue licence suspended
One of Belfast’s event venues and nightclubs has had its entertainment licence suspended because of a number of incidents of overcrowding. Belfast City Council’s Licensing Committee has suspended Rain nightclub’s entertainment licence after Building Control staff detected three separate incidents of overcrowding in November 2010, January 2011 and February 2011. Councillors took the decision at [...]
Event Licence granted to Lounge on the Farm to hold 10,000 visitors
Lounge on the Farm music festival can double in size this year to 10,000 people thanks to a new license. Canterbury council’s Licensing Sub Committee returned a non-unanimous verdict, allowing the annual summer event’s new license for one year only. A spokesman for Lounge on the Farm said: “We are happy to have finalised a [...]
Village fetes are being forced to cancel due to red tape.
They are the traditional pleasures of a British summer fair. But the spin of the tombola and the fun of the coconut shy are being eclipsed by the rustle of paperwork and the shuffle of the inspector’s footsteps. Village fete organisers say they are having to cancel events because volunteers are struggling to cope with [...]
New licence rules are threat to festival
A FESTIVAL is under threat after strict new conditions were added to the licence last night. It will be impossible to run Stokes Bay Festival next year with a raft of new restrictions that have been put in place, claims the organiser. The Gosport Tories have pushed through new rules increasing the rent at the [...]
Hop Farm festival bosses to appeal capacity application knockback.
Hop Farm festival bosses are set to appeal the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council’s decision to deny their application to increase the event’s capacity.
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