Camping

The LWG felt the existing policy of spreading the camping throughout the site added much to the uniqueness of the event. It also minimised crowd movement as many tended to camp adjacent to the areas of the festival that most interested them. The experience of 2000 showed that the camping area could cope with numbers significantly in excess of the licensed number of 100,000.

The Fire Brigade confirmed that the current campsite layout does not create a significant fire risk. Improvements to the designated family camping area proved very successful and GFL is committed to expand on these developments.

MDC Health and Safety Officials commented in the Report of Glastonbury 2000, that ‘distribution was much more even, and the relocation of the bus drop off point, and better communication, clearly paid off’. The MDC Officials recommended that the licence condition on camping density be dropped, and the current quoted figure be used as guidance only - which is in line with the HSE Event Safety Guide.

Since a recommended figure for camping density was included in the Event Safety Guide, the ground space taken up by tents has changed with the move to pneumatic and frame tents. On reflection, both ASC and MDC were convinced that a specific camping density figure should be retained as a licence condition. MDC recommended that a higher figure per hectare was practical. GFL accept this proposal.

The LWG felt a significant figure was the total acreage of public camping fields on site. In 2000, there were 260 acres of public camping and 65 acres for public caravans and camper vans provided. (In 2000 the Reading Rock Festival had a licence for 55,000 and public camping area of 140 acres, which is a higher camping density). The figures above relate only to the public camping area and does not include the provision of camping space for the accommodation of performers, traders, site workers, emergency services and so on.

In 2002, with a public licence permitting the sale of 100,000 tickets, GFL would propose to increase the land available for public camping by including Park Home Ground as camping – i.e. the land that made up car parks W21 and W22 in 2000. This new camping area is adjacent to Pennard Hill Ground, the most densely camped area in 2000. The total public camping area will therefore be 285 acres with at least a further 65 acres for caravans and camper vans.

This text was taken from the Student Pack that can be downloaded in full here.

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