Boardmasters makes new plans for festival and asks to continue using Watergate Bay site
Cornwall's biggest music festival Boardmasters has asked to remain at Watergate Bay for the next five years.
It has submitted a new planning application to Cornwall Council asking for temporary use of the Newquay site for the five-day festival until 2024.
The festival is currently held in August at Trebelsue Farm overlooking Watergate Bay.
The application comes after the festival's previous planning permission lapsed.
The entire event was cancelled last year the day before gates opened due to extreme weather.
Within a decade, Boardmasters has grown from an arena capacity of 15,000 to 53,000. The festival first started in 2010 with a camping capacity of 4,000, which has now grown to 44,000.
The new proposals don't hold any plans to increase the capacity of the site.
This year Boardmasters is due to take place between August 5 and August 9.
The application includes plans to ease pressure on local roads by splitting arrival and departure times.
Fifty five per cent of the festival's audience are due to arrive on Wednesday, 35% on Thursday and 10% on Friday.
On Sunday night 25% of the festival attendees will start departing with the remainder leaving on Monday between 8am and 2pm.
In addition the festival provides a shuttle bus which runs between the festival site and Newquay which stops people from driving on and off the site.
The "build time" of the festival will be longer than previous years - 21 days - in order to help maintain standards and prevent night time working. Building for this year's event will start from July 15.
There will then be 11 days to clear the site after the festival.
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More than £34 million was brought into the region through the festival according to an independent economic survey carried out in 2017. The sum came from customers purchasing food and drink, accommodation, shopping, entertainment and transport.
The festival also highlights that it spends £1.5m with local suppliers to stage the event.
The festival has also established the Boardmasters Foundation which has raised £125,000 for more than 50 projects since 2017. It has also donated £25,000 to local schemes despite the whole festival being cancelled in 2019.
No date has been set for when the planning application will be decided.