Falls Festival

Organisers previously announced the three-day festival would move from its home in Lorne to Birregurra with Colac Shire Otway Council announcing its approval of ...

"The VCAT hearing process will provide for an independent review of these objections. Dates and lineup will stay the same." But an application has since been made to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT). Advertisement Mayor Kate Hanson said local support for staging of the event referred to economic benefit to the community and business owners, such as businesses and contracts engaged for the event and visitor spend in the region. A hearing date for an appeal was set for February and March, after the event was scheduled to take place and prompted the relocation to Melbourne.

The enduring Falls festival has announced a big change, moving from regional to urban Victoria for its forthcoming 2022 event.

Falls Festival Vic has had to relocate to Melbourne's CBD and scrap camping entirely after residents near the planned camping site protested.

We are relocating Falls Festival Birregurra to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl! Falls Festival co-producer Jessica Ducrou said Colac Shire Otway Council approved the planning permit for Falls to be held at a new location at Birregurra back in June. Dates & lineup will stay the same. The NSW and WA festivals will go ahead as planned. It had previously been held on the same site in Lorne every News Years for 27 years. Falls Festival Vic will be renamed Falls Downtown Melbourne and will be held at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl and surrounds across the same dates December 29, 30 and 31.

THE Falls Festival is on the move again, with planning delays forcing organisers to relocate the three-day music festival from its proposed new home near ...

Tickets for the Birregurra location will be valid for Falls Downtown Melbourne, and all camping tickets will be automatically refunded from September 29. Announced on the official Falls Festival Facebook page this morning, Falls Festival Downtown Melbourne at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl will have the same lineup of artists and the same December 29-31 timeframe as the original 2022 event, which was to be held for the first time at Pennyroyal Plains in Murroon after its departure from Lorne after 27 years. THE Falls Festival is on the move again, with planning delays forcing organisers to relocate the three-day music festival from its proposed new home near Birregurra to the centre of Melbourne.

Having weathered COVID-19 lockdowns, Falls Festival returns this year at Melbourne's Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

It’s unfortunate a small group of objectors has managed to delay the show, and it doesn’t necessarily mean we won’t be [at Birregurra] in 2023.” “Melbourne was the easy option, a pre-existing venue with approval in place,” Ducrou said. Meanwhile, works are underway at North Byron Parklands ahead of Byron Bay’s Falls Festival, December 31 to January 2. An appeal hearing is set for February and March next year, months after the festival was due to be held. The annual music festival is held around the country and its Victorian leg has been held in Lorne since 1993, ushering in the new year with three days and nights of live entertainment and on-site camping. “We’d been working for a couple of years towards the Birregurra show.

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“Council is disappointed for community groups and business owners who were looking forward to an increase in spending in the region this year,” Hanson said. Last year, it was announced Falls would be scrapped in Tasmania after 17 years. “We’ve heard all about the businesses that are going to benefit from this. “What are we going to get out of this festival going forward? It was A hearing date for the appeal had been set for February and March – after the event was scheduled to take place – which prompted the relocation to Melbourne.

Victoria's famous Falls Festival will make its long-awaited return in December following a two-year hiatus and with a...

I don't know." "Council is disappointed for community groups and business owners who were looking forward to an increase in spending in the region this year," Ms Hanson said. A hearing date for the appeal has been set for February and March, after the event was scheduled to take place and prompted the relocation to Melbourne. "Thanks so much for all the support from stakeholders, artists and all who contribute to Falls, we're thrilled that the show will go on at Sidney Myer Music Bowl, ringing in the new year in Downtown Melbourne," Falls Co-Producer Jessica Ducrou said. It comes after organisers previously announced the event would move from its home in Lorne to Birregurra in Colac after Colac Shire Otway Council approved a planning permit. For the first time in its nearly 30-year history, the three-day festival will relocate from regional Victoria to inner-city Melbourne.