A major music festival could be coming to a Stockport farm if plans get the go ahead next week. Tickets are already selling for as much as £143.

Manchester Event Catering Ltd, a company based in Leeds, are hoping to put on the Made in Manchester festival again this summer at the Waterside Farm on Otterspool Road in Romiley. The festival is due to be held between August 28 and 31 and features tributes to Taylor Swift, Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, ABBA, and the Stone Roses.

The festival is returning for its sixth year and will be 'celebrating the fantastic Manchester music scene' with 'some of the best tributes to the iconic music of Manchester and some of the best local homegrown talent Greater Manchester has to offer'. The event organisers are promising a funfair, thrill rides, a food village, and 'bringing the party to Stockport with another amazing lineup of live music'.

Infants can go in for free while tickets for children are selling for £12.50 with a £1.25 booking fee on top. The highest priced ticket is for families with two adults and two children for the whole weekend which will cost £130 plus a £13 booking fee.

However for the event to go ahead, company bosses will need permission from Stockport Council. Councillors will decide at a licensing meeting on July 7 whether a premises licence can be granted for the event.

Waterside Farm is 'a greenfield site on the outskirts of Romiley' with the event held on Mill Lane field next to the farm's buildings. This is the location of the weekly Big Stockport Car Boot Sale and has been used as the location for this event for the last five years.

The licensing application before councillors gives some details about what the event could involve with live music performed outdoors and the potential for a marquee. There could also be street theatre performances, an outdoor and indoor bar, and food vendors selling soft drinks, hot food, and ice cream.

Councillors have been told the event will be managed by experienced event professionals and every child attending the event must be accompanied by an adult. A number of proposed conditions have also been put forward by Greater Manchester Police as well as the council's environmental health team.

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Manchester Event Catering are asking for permission to have live music performances between 4pm and 11.30pm on Friday August 28, between midday and 11.30pm on August 29 and 30, and then between 12pm and 7pm on August 31.

Recorded music is also proposed to be played between those times as well as the sale of alcohol both on and off the premises. However concerns have been raised by one person living in the area over public nuisance and public safety.

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