Update: South Gloucestershire councillors approved the licence on Thursday, April 20, and the event will now go ahead. Story here.
A major Bristol music and food festival headlined by pop superstars Blue and Scouting For Girls next month has been thrown into doubt after police and environmental health objected to its new site. Foodies Festival is set to attract up to 5,000 people a day to Little Stoke Park, Stoke Gifford, from Friday to Sunday, May 12-14.
But concerns about noise, traffic, a chronic lack of car parking, a “potential food poisoning outbreak”, fire safety, “confrontation” between “intoxicated” attendees and residents whose homes are just yards away and even a lack of risk assessment for the axe-throwing could scupper the event. It has been held for the past few years on The Downs and features celebrity chefs, chart-topping acts, artisan producers and a funfair.
