Organisers have outlined to residents how they plan to keep Hillsborough Park free from harm during Tramlines next month - and options are said to include cancelling days if it is deemed ‘dangerous’. But some locals are still concerned about next month’s huge music festival, which caused major damage to the site last year because torrential rain and mass footfall stripped the grass away from the popular local beauty spot, leaving parts closed for weeks. Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more.
In a residents’ drop-in at the The Wednesday Tap, in Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough stadium, organisers described what would be done to stop a repeat of 2023, when the park was closed to the public throughout the school summer holidays. One local councilor said options could include cancelling individual days if extreme weather was considered to make the event dangerous. They said that July 2023 saw unprecedented levels of rain during and prior to the festival at Hillsborough Park, as Sheffield experienced its second wettest July on record with the Weston Park weather station recording 176mm (7 inches) of rain - more than double the 65mm national average.
They added: “As part of our well documented new land agreement, we have outlined a set of parameters to be put in place during the plann.