New bid for Glastonbury Festival licence
A fresh application to hold Glastonbury Festival next year has been submitted after a previous bid was rejected, a council confirmed today.
Earlier this month the regulatory board of Mendip District Council refused a public entertainment licence for next year’s music event.
A spokesman for the council today confirmed that a new application had been received from the festival organisers.
He said the application would now be sent out for consultation to organisations such as the police, before a fresh meeting of the board probably in early February.
The board, meeting in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, earlier this month rejected a proposal after a five-hour meeting attended by some 50 people including festival organiser Michael Eavis.
It concluded with a 5-4 vote against the licence for the June 2003 festival for up to 150,000 people.
Although the application was not opposed by police, concerns were raised over problems this year in villages near the site of the music event in Pilton, Somerset.
The concerns which dissuaded the board from granting the licence were security for Pilton and surrounding villages, environmental damage and the unsuitability of the site for such a large event.
