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City park could host international food festival

Geograph/Terry Robinson The gated entrance to Graves Park. There are four large stone pillars around 8ft tall with large cast iron gates. In front there is a tarmac road with raised verges on either side and borders of pink and white flowers.Geograph/Terry Robinson
Graves Park in Sheffield could host a two-day food festival in August

A "family friendly" international food festival could be held in a popular Sheffield park in the summer after plans were submitted to the city council.

The North Leeds Food Festival (NLFF) hopes to stage a "celebration of international influence and local talent" in Graves Park, with food, drink and live music.

The event would run on 30 and 31 August in the centre of the park, with NLFF paying a charity fee to use the site.

Sheffield City Council's charity trustee sub-committee will decide whether to accept or decline the proposal on 21 January.

The proposal said a grassed area would be fenced off with a ticket booth at one side of the fencing, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

But organisers said the fencing would not "prohibit public access" around the field or to any part of the park.

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