Planning application to secure a permanent full planning permission for Glastonbury Festival

[Dukeicon]

A full planning application in relation to the festival has been submitted, which will replace the many Temporary Planning Permissions which run out after the 2024 festival.

The permission seeks not just the festival itself but the Pilton Party, Worthy View (for fallow years), plus the Pyramid Stage and Recycling Centre.

Lots of nice maps and drawings to look at 🤓
 

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PlanningSphere are instructed by Glastonbury Festival Events Ltd (GFEL) to submit a full planning application to secure a permanent full planning permission for the annual Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and associated events. The application also seeks to regularise on a permanent basis the Pyramid Structure and Recycling Building which currently benefit from temporary planning permission

The planning history relating to the festival use is complex. The extant temporary planning permission for the festival will expire upon conclusion of the 2024 festival (LPA Ref: 2016/2238/VRC). The extant permission is itself a renewal of a temporary permission that was originally granted in 2010 (LPA Ref: 2009/0127). Mendip District Council contacted GFEL in 2021 to advise that a further temporary permission would not be granted because successive renewals of planning permissions are contrary to best planning practice. Mendip DC invited GFEL to submit a comprehensive and flexible full planning application to permanently regularise the long established and internationally renowned annual festival providing more certainty and additional flexibility to cater for unforeseen events such as the recent covid pandemic.

https://publicaccess.mendip.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=RN5B5SKPKE700

Planning Ref: 2022/2458/FUL

 

Edited January 11, 2023 by Dukeicon

[Crazyfool01]

3 people self combust in Pilton right now ..... thanks @Dukeicon

[Skip997]

Link won't open.

Does it say we want to cover the whole site in a dome and turn it into a new centre parks with music?

[Dukeicon]

2 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Link won't open.

Does it say we want to cover the whole site in a dome and turn it into a new centre parks with music?

Strange, works for me.

Planning application number is 2022/2458/FUL if you want to search for it on the Mendip site.

It's basically just putting all the Temp planning permissions they have now, which run out after the 2024 festival, into a permanent planning permission. No dome!

[philipsteak]

4 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

 

Does it say we want to cover the whole site in a dome and turn it into a new centre parks with music?

Fingers crossed🤞

[Skip997]

1 minute ago, Dukeicon said:

Strange, works for me.

Planning application number is 2022/2458/FUL if you want to search for it on the Mendip site.

It's basically just putting all the Temp planning permissions they have now, which run out after the 2024 festival, into a permanent planning permission. No dome!

Cheers.

I've just noticed Ghagstock on your festival list. Reckon you live not too far from me.

[Dukeicon]

Just now, Skip997 said:

Cheers.

I've just noticed Ghagstock on your festival list. Reckon you live not too far from me.

I live in Taunton. Company I work for used to Programme the line up but doesn't any more.

[Ayrshire Chris]

13 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

3 people self combust in Pilton right now ..... thanks @Dukeicon

Does that big cross have planning permission? 😉

[Crazyfool01]

3 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Does that big cross have planning permission? 😉

not sure but looking forward to another zoom meeting 🙂 

[Neil]

Thanks Duke icon, but won't they still need a licence for the numbers on site each year. 

[Leyrulion]

First thought on the location plan- the actual site they use is WAY bigger than I'd actually thought. 

Who lives at winding lake farm and are they hold outs from taking part in the festival?

And what's that private campsite in the middle of the campervan fields?

2022_2458_FUL-SITE_LOCATION_PLAN-1279174.pdf

[Crazyfool01]

4 minutes ago, Leyrulion said:

First thought on the location plan- the actual site they use is WAY bigger than I'd actually thought. 

Who lives at winding lake farm and are they hold outs from taking part in the festival?

And what's that private campsite in the middle of the campervan fields?

2022_2458_FUL-SITE_LOCATION_PLAN-1279174.pdfUnavailable

posh camping 

https://www.windinglake.co.uk

[Leyrulion]

Confirmation of numbers available in the coach sales. I think we'd speculated about 20k, but weren't sure? 

24,000, with a much more even split over Wednesday and Thursday than I'd thought there would be.

Edit: confirmed 5,000 Sunday tickets as well. I think we knew this. 

 

Edited January 11, 2023 by Leyrulion

[Crazyfool01]

numbers on the camping event in fallow year 

• Week 1: 499

• Week 2: 2,521

• Week 3: 2,595

• Week 4: 2,522

• Week 5: 2,724

• Week 6: 1,719

• Total attendance: 12,580

[Dukeicon]

13 minutes ago, Neil said:

Thanks Duke icon, but won't they still need a licence for the numbers on site each year. 

They appear to have a Permanent Premises License since 2018. This planning supplements this.

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a full planning application has been prepared to regularise land use planning position and to align with GFEL’s permanent Premises Licence which was granted in 2018 (MDC Licensing Service Ref: PRL767).

From: Planning Design and Access Statement on the application

 

[Neil]

5 minutes ago, Dukeicon said:

They appear to have a Permanent Premises License since 2018. This planning supplements this.

 

Thanks makes sense 

[Dukeicon]

10 minutes ago, Leyrulion said:

Confirmation of numbers available in the coach sales. I think we'd speculated about 20k, but weren't sure? 

24,000, with a much more even split over Wednesday and Thursday than I'd thought there would be.

Edit: confirmed 5,000 Sunday tickets as well. I think we knew this. 

 

2022 was the first year of the increased 210,000 capacity.

[leath02]

Well this is all very interesting information 

[Leyrulion]

The biodiversity enhancement plan contains some great maps of where all the hedgerows are if anyone wants to plan some twice related sneaking in skullduggery

[Leyrulion]

10 minutes ago, Dukeicon said:

2022 was the first year of the increased 210,000 capacity.

Which one was this in?

 

But also didn't 7k more feel like a lot!

Edited January 11, 2023 by Leyrulion

[a6l6e6x]

1 minute ago, Leyrulion said:

Which one was this in?

 

But also didn't 7k more feel like a lot!

There was way way more than 7k

[Hugh Jass II]

When’s the monorail going in?

[Jose Pose]

So for those saying it wasn’t busier, it factually was.

Interesting increases largely get swallowed up by crew rather than punters though.

Edited January 11, 2023 by Jose Pose

[Leyrulion]

14 minutes ago, Hugh Jass II said:

When’s the monorail going in?

I have bad news...

 

 

[Hugh Jass II]

16 minutes ago, Leyrulion said:

I have bad news...

 

 

Damn you Helen!!