Splendour in the Grass 2022 fiasco was foreseeable and ‘just plain dangerous’, local councillors say

A flooded campsite at Splendour in the Grass 2022. Organisers of the music festival say they ‘did everything we could considering the circumstances’. Photograph: Liam Burke

The problems that besieged Splendour in the Grass were foreseeable, avoidable and dangerous to the environment, according to local government representatives.

Some have been challenging the festival’s “unsustainable” use of the Byron shire parklands venue for more than a decade – but say their concerns have fallen on deaf ears.