Public notices: festival licence bid and new indoor arena for 'leading dressage rider'

This week’s public notices features a variation to an alcohol licence from the organisers of a music festival in Fifield. A bid has also been lodged for a new horse riding arena in Cookham Dean.

To see all the public notices in your area, enter a postcode into the portal at the end of this article.

Licensing:

The organisers of popular music festival Fi.Fest have submitted an application to the Royal Borough to vary the times of its existing alcohol and live music licence.

The event, which takes place at Stroud Farm in Fifield, happens over a Friday and Saturday in July, and its application seeks to extend the hours of its licence on the Friday.

The festival already hosts a launch event on the Friday evening.

On the RBWM website, the application seeks to vary the alcohol licensing hours to start from 12.30pm and last until 10.30pm on the Friday.

The licence application said: ‘All licensable activities and hours on the additional Friday will remain the same as those currently permitted’.

Fi.Fest’s 2025 line-up saw a record attendance as Welsh rockers Feeder and naughties pop-band Scouting for Girls took to the stage as headline acts.

Planning:

A bid has been lodged with the council for a new indoor horse-riding arena at Mount Farm in Choke Lane, Cookham Dean.

Plans from DSEquine describe the new arena as 60 by 20 metres in size, accompanied by an ornamental garden, storage and stable areas.

The arena would be made from a steel structure and its roof would be 7.5 metres high.

A statement on the plans said: “The applicant’s daughter is a leading dressage rider who has represented Great Britain on numerous occasions.

“She is currently Number 106 in the FEI [Fédération Equestre Internationale] Dressage World Rankings.

“To continue her career at the level she has reached, she requires modern facilities and especially the indoor arena to allow continuous training during the winter months.”

It added: “As an equestrian specialist we have over years shown that equestrian facilities in dressage, show jumping, polo and racing are very important contributors to local communities in both income and employment.”

Enter 25/02046/FULL into RBWM’s planning portal for more.