Bristol dance pageant cancelled resulting from residents calling it “a type of torture”

A dance pageant has been cancelled after two years resulting from complaints from native residents.

The organisers of Goa Cream Festival had deliberate to carry the pageant at Yewtree Farm close to Thornbury, north of Bristol, for the third yr in a row and the pageant’s ninth yr general.

Nevertheless, South Gloucestershire councillors refused the plans for the psychedelic trance pageant to run from September 12 to 14 after talking to the council’s environmental well being crew and Avon and Somerset Police.

One native resident who complained to police final yr wrote in a letter that the “continuous heavy bass music” was “nearly inhumane and a type of torture,” as reported by BBC News.

In the meantime, environmental well being officer Florence Fisher instructed the council assembly that the pageant final yr prompted 11 complaints from close by residents and that the environmental well being crew was solely given “numbers scribbled on items of paper” and poor screenshots of the tools’s readings.

One resident claimed that the pageant gave them a headache all weekend, whereas others stated that the music made their home windows and homes shake. Police licensing officer Wes Hussey shared a criticism from one other resident who stated the noise had a “profound impact” on him and his household, and he talked about that the urged music and alcohol gross sales occasions may lead to confrontation.

On the assembly, organiser Piers Ciappara stated that the pageant did its personal noise monitoring final yr however had since contracted an expert sound acoustic engineer, including: “He stated: “Final yr we solely had handwritten notes and pictures as a result of the week after the occasion my colleague who had the sound system had a nasty accident. He almost chopped his hand off slicing the grass so he couldn’t put a spreadsheet collectively – however this yr we've got an expert crew with us.”

He stated that the pageant attracts an viewers aged over 40 on common, with plenty of festivalgoers bringing their kids, and that the pageant raises cash for Bristol Suicide Prevention and Sharpness Lifeboat Station.

He urged altering the orientation of the audio system in order that they level away from properties to deal with noise issues, in addition to lowering alcohol gross sales occasions.