POLICE and environmental health officials have objected to a temporary licence for a Wimborne festival planned for a farm site in early September.

The Multiverse event is due to take place on Pilford Farm, Uddens from September 3rd to 5th.

An application for a temporary licence describes it as a “family camping event with art, workshops, food and drink and music” for up to 500 people.

But Police say the organiser’s own online advertising makes no mention of ‘family’ and describes the event as being for Chillout, Psy-Chill and Psy-Dub music which will continue until 5am on the first day.

A temporary event licence, which will be considered by councillors this week, asks for the sale of drink from midday on Friday to 5am Saturday and to 3am on Sunday.

It has been submitted in the name of Mr Samuel Taylor although his address, age and other details have been redacted by Dorset Council on the application form.

A website advertising the event is offering weekend tickets for £100 and lists around 45 performers on two stages Mr Taylor says the event will be held in one field on the dairy farm with parking in the adjacent field.

“The licensable activities will be the sale of alcohol and late night music. Alcohol will be served between midday and 3am, the landlord of the Red Lion in Bristol will be joining us and we shall be operating under his personal licence. Music will be performed until 5am although the volume will be significantly dropped after 2am. We will be utilising a haybale wall around the speakers to minimise and direct the sound away from residences. All volumes will be kept within environmental standards,” said the application.

In objections to the licence application an environmental health officer says he cannot see why a ‘family event’ needs to have music throughout the small hours of the morning, adding that 2am is not a reasonable time for the music to continue to, let alone to be the earliest time that a reduction in volume is even considered.

“There are several residential properties to the north and south as well as some to the west. Should the event be carried out as described it is likely that there will be nuisance caused to residents. In addition to the above the Council have received three recent nuisance complaints regarding activities at Pilford Farm, further confirming that any such event will almost certainly cause nuisance to neighbouring residents,” said the officer.

Dorset Police says that despite the claim that the event is a family one the organiser’s website describes it as “‘full 3 days of music, art and festival shenanigans’. The Police say there is no reference to family or children’s entertainment and say the application fails to outline any policies to cope with the welfare of vulnerable, unwell or intoxicate persons, missing people, a child policy, or the control of alcohol brought on to site and does not include any details of a drug policy.

A Dorset Council licensing committee will hear the application in County Hall, Dorchester at 10am on Thursday, August 5th, unless like other committees recently, the hearing is cancelled at the last minute, or switched online.