T in the Park submit official proposal for move to new home

DF Concerts organisers of T in the Park have submitted their proposal of application notice documents with Perth and Kinross Council.

This is the first step in the planning process needed for the festival to move to the new site. The “pre-application plan” explains exactly what holding the event will entail, from live music and entertainment to camping, facilities, and food provision.

T in the Park will be celebrating it's 22nd year and has been held at the disused Balado airfield in Kinross-shire for much of the last two decades. The papers contain an outline of consultations with the local community and the work needed to bring the festival to the new Perthshire home of Strathallan Castle from Friday 10th until Sunday 12th July 2015 with early entry available on Thursday 9th July.and .

The documents state that DF Concerts will apply for permission for "engineering and other operations to facilitate the establishment and use of a venue for the purposes of holding a music event."

They also ask for the use of the land and existing buildings by the festival in July each year and provision of “a funfair, cinema, sale and consumption of hot and cold food and drink and alcohol, vehicle parking and temporary accommodation, including camping”.

A map of the Strathallan Castle grounds is also contained in the document, outlining the possible area required for the event.

Under the plans, two community exhibitions will be held next month as part of moves to consult the community, and organisers have already been talking to local residents on a one-to-one basis over the previous few months about their plans.

A full planning application is expected to follow after consultations, and an environmental impact study will have to be carried out as part of the application, after residents wrote to the Scottish government demanding a review.

Tickets for T in the Park are not currently on sale.