Adrian Lord told Pendle Council's Licensing Department on Tuesday that was the course of action he was taking.

Mr Lord, director of Enlightened Entertainments Ltd, of Trawden, was granted premises licences with conditions attached in respect of Brown House Farm, Gisburn Old Road, Blacko, and a field site off Ridge Lane, Noggarth, Roughlee, in January.

He has to give two months' notice of intended festivals and this year announced it would be at Brown House Farm, which has a Blacko postal address but is in Salterforth parish.

He has surrendered that licence, but the one issued for Noggarth still stands.

A member of Pendle's Licensing Department said Enlightened Entertainments can hold a festival at Noggarth, subject to following the correct procedure, and can apply for a premises licence on other sites.

The meeting of the council's Licensing Committee, due to be held on October 3rd, to review the licence for the Salterforth site, where residents would have been able to have their say, will not now take place.

The review was requested by the council's Environmental Health Services after an internal review by officers from all the departments concerned. The grounds given by the officers for the public airing were "conditions to prevent public nuisance were persistently breached throughout the weekend of August 1st-4th".

We were told by the licensing officer that once the premises licence had been surrendered "that was that"; there was no need to hold the meeting.

There was, however, an admission that the entertainments company could apply for the Salterforth site again but environmental health officers "might - in view of what happened - require more stringent conditions to be placed on any new licence".

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