Music festival set to expand

THE popular Creamfields music festival held annually in Daresbury in August looks set to expand over the next few years.
A licence application from the organisers includes a proposal to increase numbers attending from 39,999 to 50,000 this year with further increases to 59,999 by 2013.
Cllr Peter Walker said the increased numbers and changes to opening times and venues on the site would have little impact on Stockton Heath.
Although music would now be provided on the Friday evening it would he inaudible – played through earphones so bystanders could not hear anything.
At other times, noise levels on the site would be controlled as last year.
He said: “The campsite is to be extended and most people will arrive on Friday and stay until Monday.
“If people leave the campsite they cannot get back in – which means they will not be wandering off into the villages.”
The council is not objecting to the expansion of the festival.