Huge clean up operation continues at Creamfields as tents abandoned and site left like mudbath

A huge clean-up operation is continuing on the Creamfields music festival site which was left like a mudbath littered with hundreds of abandoned tents following the four-day Bank Holiday weekend event.

While Cheshire Police are still collating data on the number of incidents relating to the festival, officers from Merseyside’s Roads Unit provided assistance on Bank Holiday Monday with site checks, making four arrests for drug driving, two arrests for drugs, several positive stop searches for drugs, and numerous RTA offences were also dealt with.

Meanwhile roads around the area were left covered in mud as campers, who abandoned hundreds of tents left the fields, and trudged along the grass verges along Chester Road.

Workers are this week continuing the clearance of litter and other items left behind by the sell-out 70,000 crowds.

The site pictured at the start of the Festival

Warrington South MP Andy Carter said he had received a handful of emails from local residents in Higher Walton and Old Chester Road areas, due to traffic marshalls not being provided but nothing like previous years.
He had also received reports of scavaging on the site but this was resolved when police closed Warrington Lane.

Work is also dismantling stages and barriers around the site which has been left like a mudbath.
Festivalgoers didn’t let the muddy conditions spoil their fun – see below!

#Syn3 officers have been conducting #OpLimit check sites today in response to the #Creamfields event taking place in @cheshirepolice. 4 arrests drug drive, 2 arrests for drugs, several positive stop searches for drugs, and numerous RTA offences dealt with. #Fatal4 #VisionZero. pic.twitter.com/tTKOrsKtm9

— Roads Policing Unit (@MerPolTraffic) August 27, 2023