Crunch meeting to decide if Derby Summer Sessions with Jess Glynne, Rag’n’Bone Man and Faithless can go ahead

According to its website, Derby City Council’s General Licensing Sub Committee is to meet on Wednesday, December 18 to discuss next year’s Summer Sessions concerts at the city’s biggest park.

It has been announced the event will take place on a number of dates in July and will see the likes of Jesse Glynne and Faithless perform in front of up to 10,000 people. Other stars are set to perform including Simple Minds, Rag’n’Bone Man, UB40 featuring Ali Campbell and The Human League. Tickets are currently available to buy.

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The organiser of the festival, Live Nation (Music) UK Ltd, has applied to Derby City Council for licensing premises to have activities such as live music, recorded music, performance of dance and sale of alcohol at the park between 10am and 11pm.

The Summer Sessions event was held in Derby for the first time last year at Markeaton Park. The events saw the likes of Tom Jones, Madness and Becky Hill perform live and was attended by thousands. Organisers want to put on more shows for the city in 2025.

But despite tickets being on sale, a hearing has been scheduled after Derby City Council received an objection from a member of the public. It is usual practice for a hearing to be arranged by the council should there be any objection over a licensing application.

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The member of the public has written to the council: “I’m responding to the notices posted up in relation to the premises license for Markeaton Park. I would like to object. I live 10 to 15 minutes away from the park and during the summer (I think it was called Summer Sessions) the noise from the park carried considerably.

“The noise is very loud (louder than I would play music in my own house) and to have it until 11pm is too late (bearing in mind construction noise needs to be ended by 6pm).

“I would like the council to consider declining the licence completely or, if the license is granted, to have that end at a suitable time (e.g. 8pm) so as to avoid disturbing local residents’ sleep/evening wind down time.”

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No other person, authority or emergency based organisation appears to have submitted an objection. Documents state the applicant has had a number of conditions agreed with Derbyshire police about holding the series of concerts.

A proposed condition is for the organiser to file a noise assessment to the council at least eight weeks prior to any music event. The purpose of the noise assessment is to set noise limits for all amplified music. Another condition is for sound monitoring to take place “at the nearest noise sensitive residencies”.