A major music festival is coming to a Stockport farm after plans got the go ahead.

It's hoped over 5,000 people could attend with bosses hoping to take the event to the next level.

Manchester Event Catering Ltd, a company based in Leeds, are the company behind the Made in Manchester festival at the Waterside Farm on Otterspool Road in Romiley. They successfully applied to Stockport Council for a licence to allow the event to go ahead with conditions.

The festival was 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. However it will now only take place on the Saturday and Sunday of that weekend.

Organisers are hoping for around 3,000 people to attend on the Saturday and then around 2,000 on the Sunday. The event organisers are promising a funfair, thrill rides, a food village, a 'zoo' showing exotic animals, and 'bringing the party to Stockport with another amazing lineup of live music'.

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 will also donate to charity.

On the events website, 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.

At a licensing meeting on July 7 where the licence was granted, Erduvan Osman said he had previous experience working behind the scenes at Parklife Festival as well as Manchester Pride.

Mr Osman said he was keen to involve local residents and anyone who might be concerned about the festival, adding: "We are not going to have any plans to, excuse my French, p*** off anybody. I really do not want to do that."

He said he would do things properly and take action to address and mitigate any issues with teams in place to do that, telling councillors he was 'not someone who says they are going to do something and then not'.

He said: "It's not just about me standing onstage clapping my hands to Oasis. It doesn't interest me to be honest. My interest is building a good safe festival."

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

Councillors were 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 had also been put forward by Greater Manchester Police as well as the council's environmental health team which will be attached to the licence.

Manchester Event Catering had asked 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. The licence only granted for the Saturday and Sunday.

Recorded music will also be allowed to be played between those times as well as the sale of alcohol both on and off the premises. Concerns had been raised by one person living in the area over public nuisance and public safety.

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