Glastonbury Festival 2020 could introduce a new alcohol limit following a verdict given by Mendip District Council that the festival must improve a number of areas for this year's addition of the festival.
Alongside and to reduce bass noise overnight, the council would like to see a potential alcohol limit come into force.
Currently, festival-goers are allowed to take alcohol through the festival gates and around the entire site with them.
The majority of attendees often take alcohol into the site with them to cut down on the overall expenditure of paying for alcohol on site.
However, the council have looked at every aspect as to how the 2019 event was run through its latest "de-brief report" and have found that certain aspects need to be improved for 2020.
A potential alcohol limit?
The council has asked to be provided with a comprehensive list and map of all bars on the festival site two weeks in advance of the festival's first day.
They have also requested that staff at the designated taxi ranks should be given "a more comprehensive briefing" ahead of the event.
The report was published before a meeting of the board's scrutiny panel in Shepton Mallet on January 9.
Claire Malcolmson is the council's group manager for community health and she said: “The Glastonbury Festival has a worldwide reputation – and as such it means that we have a huge responsibility in ensuring that it undertakes its statutory duties.
“The purpose of the licence, the licensing objectives and other legislation is to ensure event organisers provide a safe event whilst minimising disruption and nuisance to the local community.”
Most of the changes the council proposed following the 2017 addition of the festival were successfully implemented in 2019.
The festival organisers have declined to comment on the report's findings.
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