http://www.ledburyportal.co.uk/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3242:jamstand-festival-2010&catid=1:latest&It

This sounds like the sort of event that everyone should be supporting and which the local authority should be ensuring has all the permission it requires.

It is a disgrace that such an event is prevented and that the local authority is happy to prevent it, as long as the blame can be placed at someone else's door.