Ticket buyers told to stay away after council’s safety concerns lead to festival surrendering licence
The organisers of the biggest green festival have been forced to cancel the event just days before it was due to start because of a failure to resolve safety problems with police.
The Big Green Gathering was expecting 15,000-20,000 people to turn up for the event, held in the Mendip hills, Somerset, but organisers have now told ticket buyers to stay away.
The five-day event, near Cheddar, was described by the festival directors as the “world’s premier and award-winning green festival”. It was due to open on Wednesday. The organisers said they had no choice but to voluntarily surrender the licence for this year, following legal moves by Mendip district council supported by Somerset and Avon police.
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