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Dianne Bourne & Alex McIntyre

Music giant SJM applies for huge live event on playing fields in Wilmslow

SJM Wilmslow Cheshire Cheshire East Council United Kingdom

One of the UK's biggest concert promoters has launched plans to hold a huge live music event on playing fields in Wilmslow. Manchester-based SJM has lodged a premises licence application for the Jim Evison Playing Fields in the Cheshire town.

The site is currently used mainly for local sport groups and for Wilmslow Town football club. Now the promoters have made an application to council bosses to stage events over two days in the summer, which could host "up to 25,000 people" on the fields.

SJM is behind some of the biggest live events in recent living memory in the region - including the comeback of Take That, the Stone Roses, Peter Kay and promoting huge shows from the likes of Coldplay, Muse and the Spice Girls. The application has naturally fuelled major speculation in Wilmslow about what is being planned for the playing fields, off Altrincham Road.

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