Authorities turn down Greenbelt's application for permanent site at Churchstowe.

THE 20TH Greenbelt Christian Arts Festival has had its application for a licence turned down. Daventry District Council has decided not to award Greenbelt a licence for its new "permanent" site at Churchstowe. Sue Plater, Joint General Manager of the charity is "extremely disappointed", but despite police and environmental health office assurances that reasonable standards would be maintained, councillors were not convinced.

Said Sue, "Greenbelt has always been a rural event but current thinking in the countryside seems to be against townspeople coming and enjoying it even for one weekend a year." Organisers are adamant the Festival will take place though, as usual, on 27th-30th August. "We may not know where we will be holding it yet, but there definitely will be a Greenbelt '93," said Sue Plater. CR

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