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Glasto gets a six year licence
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 12 February 2010
Glastonbury Festival organisers have been given the go-ahead to stage the uber-fest at Worth Farm for another six years, meaning they won’t have to go back to their local council for a licence until 2016. The six-year long licence has been granted without a full hearing after no locals submitted objections and some concerns by the local fire brigade were overcome.
There was a time when Team Glasto had to apply for a licence on an annual basis and the application would often result in heated scenes in the Mendip Council chamber. But since Mean Fiddler, now Festival Republic, were brought in to help with festival production the local community has been much less hostile, resulting in the festival’s current four year licence being granted in 2007 and this new six year one now. Well done Team Glasto and Festival Republic.
Said team have confirmed 2012 will be a fallow year for the festival, partly to avoid competing with the Olympics hype, and partly to give Worthy Farm its traditional recovery year.
