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# Council investigation ongoing after “significant number” of noise complaints about Fradley festival
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/council-investigation-ongoing-after-significant-number-of-noise-complaints-about-fradley-festival/
- Published: 2025-08-01T06:07:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-31T07:43:06.000Z
- Description: Council chiefs say an investigation is ongoing following a “significant number” of noise complaints about a festival in Fradley.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Fradley, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:45, News

COUNCIL chiefs say an investigation is ongoing following a “significant number” of noise complaints about a festival in Fradley.

The Wibbly Woods event saw residents complain to Lichfield District Council about excessive noise.

But a spokesperson for Lichfield District Council said that the size of the festival meant it was unable to impose conditions before it took place.

They said:

> “We’ve received a significant number of noise complaints about an event that took place last weekend in Fradley, known as the Wibbly Woods festival.  
>  
> “As the event involves fewer than 500 people, it’s been held for several years under a Temporary Event Notice (TEN).  
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> “A TEN doesn’t allow our environmental health officers to impose conditions on the event, only to object to it taking place.  
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> “Environmental health has historically objected to the event due to concerns about noise, which led to the organisers taking steps to reduce its impact.  
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> “As a result, in recent years the noise levels from the event have been much better, and we therefore didn’t have the evidence to object to this year’s event.  
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> “Unfortunately, it’s clear that the event last weekend led to significant noise over a wide area, and we’ve had more complaints than ever before.”

People are able to raise a formal noise complaint [via the Lichfield District Council website](https://www.lichfielddc.gov.uk/home-garden/noise-complaints/5?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).

A council spokesperson added:

> “Our environmental health officers were in contact with the organisers before and during the event and were out each night monitoring the noise levels.  
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> “We are now investigating whether any offences have been committed. This will help shape our response to any future TEN applications for this event.”