Glastonbury Festival's organiser Michael Eavis has commented on reports that the event could be moving to a new site permanently, after it was previously rumoured Worthy Farm in Pilton may be unsafe due to a gas pipe.
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Speaking to the Glastonbury Free Press, Eavis explained that the idea was "really on the backburner now."
He added: "It's something we're looking at for the next fallow year, which is likely to be in 2019."
Worthy Farm will take its usual year off to allow the land and livestock recovery time from the effects of the event in 2019, so Longleat will potentially be holding the festival that year.
"It's important that we try another site," Eavis explained. "We could have all kinds of problems here with livestock, which could close us down. Longleat is only 18 miles down the road, and it looks like a good place if we ever did an alternative site."
Emily Eavis however previously confirmed to BBC News: "The main thing to set straight is that Glastonbury Festival itself will always be at Worthy Farm."
She also mentioned a separate festival will be taking place in 2019 during Glastonbury's fallow year: "It's going to be the whole team behind the Glastonbury Festival, but it's not going to be called Glastonbury."
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