Planning application to secure a permanent full planning permission for Glastonbury Festival

[gfa]

57 minutes ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

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😂 out of upvote ffs

[Dukeicon]

Pilton Full Council will be meeting 1 February, NOTE DIFFERENT TIME - 6pm, at Pilton Village Hall.

The GFEL Planning Application will be debated from 7:45pm.

Links to Agenda and documents can be found on the Pilton Parish Council Website front page https://www.piltonparishcouncil.org under 'Upcoming Meeting' or through the links below - Documents: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jc_SAGu2DtsDtw5gU42g-E6TUTNEgOA3

The Zoom link for remote attendance is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84847194927?pwd=dW83U2xGNzRjd3czRkVXMFFvT2c4dz09#success

Edited January 28, 2023 by Dukeicon

[Crazyfool01]

4 minutes ago, Dukeicon said:

Pilton Full Council will be meeting 1 February, NOTE DIFFERENT TIME - 6pm, at Pilton Village Hall.

The GFEL Planning Application will be debated from 7:45pm.

Links to Agenda and documents can be found on the Pilton Parish Council Website front page https://www.piltonparishcouncil.org under 'Upcoming Meeting' or through the links below - Documents: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jc_SAGu2DtsDtw5gU42g-E6TUTNEgOA3

The Zoom link for remote attendance is: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84847194927?pwd=dW83U2xGNzRjd3czRkVXMFFvT2c4dz09#success

thanks will attend remotely and feedback on here 

[Alvoram]

On 1/27/2023 at 12:07 PM, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

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Haha, I only read the first headline, and believed it!!! You got me hook line and sinker. 

Brilliant btw, absoloutely brilliant. 👏

[Crazyfool01]

12 minutes ago, Alvoram said:

Haha, I only read the first headline, and believed it!!! You got me hook line and sinker. 

Brilliant btw, absoloutely brilliant. 👏

I took the bait also … just saw the photo that Somerset live always used to use @Supernintendo Chalmers must have it stored on his clipboard 😉

[stuie]

11 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

I took the bait also … just saw the photo that Somerset live always used to use @Supernintendo Chalmers must have it stored on his clipboard 😉

They still use it... I've seen it on there in the last week or so! 

[ChimpyJ]

Did anybody watch the whole of the meeting last night?

Anything of note to report?

This is an interesting comment about current ownership changes. 

[gfa]

24 minutes ago, ChimpyJ said:

Did anybody watch the whole of the meeting last night?

Anything of note to report?

This is an interesting comment about current ownership changes. 

@Crazyfool01 you watched it?

[Crazyfool01]

9 minutes ago, gfa said:

@Crazyfool01 you watched it?

Oh crap .. I forgot to set a reminder … wonder if it can be watched back ? 

[dotdash79]

1 hour ago, ChimpyJ said:

Did anybody watch the whole of the meeting last night?

Anything of note to report?

This is an interesting comment about current ownership changes. 

I expect that the farm is being put into trust so that it outside the scope for inheritance tax, in fact I would say that would have bene done years ago.

[moogster]

Am I reading between the lines they are worried about ME's kids?

[dotdash79]

1 minute ago, moogster said:

Am I reading between the lines they are worried about ME's kids?

Or even grandkids. Planning permission is forever.

[giantkatestacks]

Yes, clearly the ownership will sadly change at some point soonish.

[Dukeicon]

1 hour ago, moogster said:

Am I reading between the lines they are worried about ME's kids?

This could be because of Live Nations involvement again - Melvin Benn was added as a Director again at the end of 2021.

[gfa]

3 minutes ago, Dukeicon said:

This could be because of Live Nations involvement again - Melvin Benn was added as a Director again at the end of 2021.

This was my initial thought too 

[Ommadawn]

1 hour ago, giantkatestacks said:

Yes, clearly the ownership will sadly change at some point soonish.

Yes, it's probably Michael they're worried about.

 

[Respectfatfrog]

Was kind of nice to see Anne goodes daughter objecting much like her mother for all those years 

[circus92]

On 1/27/2023 at 12:07 PM, Supernintendo Chalmers said:

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This is so good - brilliant stuff 🤣🤣

There are occasions when it would be good if the site would allow more than one upvote per post …. and this is definitely one of them 👏

[incident]

6 hours ago, Dukeicon said:

This could be because of Live Nations involvement again - Melvin Benn was added as a Director again at the end of 2021.

Melvin is new.

Live Nation is not.

Paul Latham, one of Melvins bosses at LN:UK, was a for the past 10 years or so.

[ChimpyJ]

Worthy Pastures removed from the planning application!

[Memory Man]

If they want to do worthy pastures they will just apply for a licence for it separately during the fallow years surely

[stuartbert two hats]

On 2/2/2023 at 9:08 AM, ChimpyJ said:

Did anybody watch the whole of the meeting last night?

Anything of note to report?

This is an interesting comment about current ownership changes. 

I think this is all about Michael being old and nothing to do with Melvin. It's not about changes to management, it's changes to ownership - and there is a good chance that the main owner of the land is going to change in the not too distant future. He's going to be 90 in 2025. He's old.

[Leyrulion]

27 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

I think this is all about Michael being old and nothing to do with Melvin. It's not about changes to management, it's changes to ownership - and there is a good chance that the main owner of the land is going to change in the not too distant future. He's going to be 90 in 2025. He's old.

Do we even know if he's still actually the owner? Seems like something they might have wanted to move to at least joint ownership of given the inheritance tax implications.

[stuartbert two hats]

14 minutes ago, Leyrulion said:

Do we even know if he's still actually the owner? Seems like something they might have wanted to move to at least joint ownership of given the inheritance tax implications.

Good point, I've no idea. There appear to be at least three different companies involved in the festival according to companies house and whilst there were some documents about shares, I couldn't work out the ownership from them.

[incident]

Just now, Leyrulion said:

Do we even know if he's still actually the owner? Seems like something they might have wanted to move to at least joint ownership of given the inheritance tax implications.

Michael owns Worthy Farm outright, and therefore most of the land inside the fence (more on the Eastern side).

Finn Christensen, who's only a couple years younger than Michael, owns most of the rest of the core land used (not certain but I believe it broadly comprises much of the western camping fields inside the fence, and some of the ones just outside).

So to be blunt about it - the idea that one or both of those might change in the foreseeable future is quite realistic.