The biggest issue for EMF is to find a good site. Here are our requirements, in order of priority:

At least 3-8 hectares/8-15 acres/0.03-0.06 sq km (this should fit at least 1500 people but this isn't indicative of our planned capacity)
Good access for setup vehicles (no low bridges, for example)
Ability to get a good internet connection (1 gigabit+) (but please let us know of any potential sites and we can work this out)
Pleasant enough you actually want to spend time there
Good transport links
Near largish shops (e.g. large Tesco)
Some kind of water supply/sewage connection
Well drained
Space for parking

We don't care about:

Existing electricity supply (it's probably more hassle than providing it ourselves)

Candidate Sites

Site Name	Details
Colerne Airfield, Wiltshire (nr Bath)	Owned by a company of a friend of London Hackspace
Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate	Site of the Great Yorkshire Show which has massive farm equipment so access is probably fine. Has event spaces, big outside areas, loads of parking. Sainsburys effectively on site. From memory, drainage is OK.
Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire	Location of Glastonbudget. About 4 miles from Loughborough. Not sure of parking and amenities, but Glastonbudget has about 12,000 people so likely to be plenty of space if we can use some of that as car park
Peterborough Arena and Showground	Seems very accessible by all sorts of vehicles and good public transport links. Arena has internet, so should be easy to roll out to the showgrounds. Close to Peterborough for shops and things.

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