A festival in Birkenhead Park set to feature bands such as Echo and the Bunnymen has been cancelled.
The 2022 Wirral Food, Drink and Music Festival, set to take place in September, will not go ahead due to what the council calls its “current financial position”. In February, councillors voted to make £20m worth of cuts across Wirral Council’s budget.
This will see the council withdraw funding from nine libraries, Woodchurch Leisure Centre and two public golf courses. While this festival was supposed to be a commercial event that would not directly cost the council money, it would have required considerable resources from across the local authority to support it.
