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Glastonbury applies for capacity increase
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 7 March 2014
Glastonbury Festival is preparing an application to Mendip District Council to increase its capacity to 198,000 people over the next ten years. The expanded size will only allow for higher staff numbers, however.
The festival’s Robert Richards told eFestivals: “With all the new regulations and things, the pressure is on us to have enough staff to pacify everybody. We are doing this to make sure we don’t have to keep going back to the council asking for additional numbers. We need to make sure that we can if need be, increase the staff capacity to meet the festival’s needs”.
Currently Glastonbury’s capacity stands at 177,500, which works out as 135,000 for public tickets, 5000 for tickets sold to locals, and 37,500 for staff. If approved, the capacity for staff members would increase to 63,000 by 2024.
Partly the need for more staff is down to more punters arriving on the Wednesday before the festival officially begins. Also related to this, the new licensing application will ask to be allowed to hold acoustic performances on some of the festival’s stages on that Wednesday.
