ORGANISERS of the annual Creamfields music festival have announced plans to spend £500,000 on a number of major improvements to the festival site at Daresbury for this year’s August Bank Holiday weekend event, in a bid to avoid another wash out. 
This follows the cancellation of the final day of last year’s event due to adverse weather and flooding on-site and the assurance that an assessment would be made into how the festival can be improved upon for this year.
A police report following last year’s wash out said there were several shortcomings in the organisers’ plan for dealing with major incidents on site.
Massive flooding had wiped tents out leaving people without anything and no means to get home for at least another night.
The money is to be spent on improving key areas of the site, including the field drainage systems; investment into additional trackways and a series of new bridges across fields.
The investment into drainage will include strengthening of the existing drainage solutions on site along with 2500m of new drainage which has been designed and developed by a specialist drainage consultant. This will ensure that the land is well equipped to handle rainfall from now, up until and during the show. A total 1500m of new trackways will be laid on site, and there will be considerable investment made into the construction of new bridges across areas with particularly heavy footfall, ensuring improved access for campers travelling between the campsites and the arena sites.
In the event of wet weather issues again this year, a revised contingency plan has also been put in place to ensure improved communication. This includes additional investment into a new tannoy system and information screens on all campsites to ensure important messages from the event management team are communicated directly to campers.
Organisers have also made the decision to move a number of arenas that were deemed unfit for use as a result of last year’s bad weather to higher areas within the current arena site.
Now that Cream is part of Live Nation Music they will be drawing on the extensive knowledge and experience of their Festival Team who run some of the biggest festivals in the UK including Download, Wireless and Hard Rock Calling as well as major events and concert tours in many temporary locations. They are 100% committed to improving the safety, security and suitability of the Creamfields site.
The full Creamfields line-up is set to be announced today (Wed Feb 27) at 10am.
Tickets go on general sale on Friday, March 1 at 10am.
Creamfields UK 2013 Daresbury, will take place on the August Bank Holiday weekend of Friday 23rd / Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th.
Picture shows revellers at last year’s event
