I don’t see why it could not happen in the same venue as last year as it went well without any major incident (there was apparently more wind than know_hope had expected, but it is normal weather for EA (I did even get up early to get the area weather map from German Coastguard but it showed only force 2/3 wind)).
The realities are that festivals are viewed by local authorities as the equivalent of a flood or terrorist incident. And to be fair with British weather, driving standards and behaviour its not uncommon to get a flood, and added to that a fair few road crashes and hospitals getting 50%-100% more emergency admissions, a work colleague was on ED at the time of the first glade, and he was shocked and dismayed at some of the things the NHS had to cope with for what should have been a “fun” event, including child neglect, avoidable OD’s and incidents of violence. (BTW this dude was one of the first people any patient at ED would deal with so he is not easily shocked).
The rest of society which doesn’t want the festival isn’t prepared to subsidise it through their tax in a time of economic depression, so the Emergency services and Council recover the costs which are put on to people ticket prices.
Even latitude which is basically a festival for posh 6th form kids and their teachers and parents still has two rape cases unsolved, and youths from my urban estate in Ipswich left early last year because the amount of arrests and violent incidents dismayed them (this area of town supposedly has a bit of a bad rep!) and with each outdoor where this bullshit happens the backlash becomes bigger.
I heard that last year they were having difficulting selling tickets anyway, so perhaps they have (wisely) decided to rest a year and do it next year.
