What festival sites can learn from luxury events

In Festival Insights (14 October), Harry Jones, creative director of Original Marquees, sets out how techniques from private and luxury events carry over to festival sites.

His case study is a charity event at Stonor Park in June 2025. On sloping ground the team built a levelled floor standing 1.5 metres high at one end, linked other structures at ground level by ramps, and ran temporary trackway around a large beech tree to protect it. More than 75 suppliers had to be sequenced through the build. The raised floor also restricted airflow, so some sidewalls were kept closed and floor fans were used.

The lessons will be familiar to TentMasters, but they are well put:

• bring specialists in before the site plan is fixed;
• plan flooring, access and airflow together, because a fix for one can constrain the others;
• use trackway for reliable access whatever the weather;
• plan for heat and comfort, not just rain.

Read the full article: Festival Insights