Wilderness Parking Diktat

Sun 3 Aug, 20:12

FROM THE WILDERNESS FESTIVAL ORGANISERS COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT

The letter that was not received in 2025.

Dear valued local resident in Charlbury.

We have put ourselves in your shoes as local residents and how the Wilderness Festival really affects you as local residents. We have thought about how we would feel as organisers to the festival if we lived here as residents and how it would have affected us living in our homes if we were you.

I wanted to let you know well in advance that Wilderness Festival is back to gorgeous sleepy Charlbury in 2026!

And to let you know that X number of big long lorries setting up the festival will be driving past between this date and that date in 2026. We know that there is a big double decker bus that these huge lorries may collide with on the corner. Hopefully not!

Fingers crossed that this won’t happen because we will have thought ahead and communicated with the local bus company.

And, of course, we will have communicated also with the local residents most affected by the flow of traffic before, during and after Wilderness Festival.

Oh, and by the way, you will have z numbers of cars exiting Wilderness Festival on a and b date going in front of your homes. We know that you don’t mind, do you?

This thoughtfulness ahead of the festival by us means that you can go away if you want to.

We really really care about the local community and how wonderful Charlbury is to host Wilderness Festival. Apparently it is the new Notting Hill of the Cotwolds.

Our festival will boost house prices, AIRBNB bookings but hopefully not affect any local children or adults affected by car/lorry fumes.

Next year we will be publishing data about lorry, car and pollution levels in the town from 2025 so that you are more aware of the impact of the festival for next year.

Thanks Charlbury residents for your tolerance and understanding – we will be consulting with you better next year, as we have learnt from what we didn’t think about enough this year and we value your buy in which is so important.