Preston: Planning starts for council's last Preston Guild festival
A city council meeting heard the usual lead-in time for the event is four and five years, which would coincide with the likely time of the authority's demise, the Local Democracy Reporting Service writes.Councillors voted to establish the Guild Committee to oversee the festival development.Deputy council leader Martyn Rawlinson, from Labour, said preparations could be made at this early stage but stressed the principle reason for the move was "to make a statement that Preston Guild must go ahead".He added: "We want to respect the traditions and carry [them] on – that's 800 years of tradition.The cross-party committee of five councillors has £500,000 but a separate budget group is usually established as the Guild draws closer to oversee the much larger overall delivery cost.The total bill for the 10-day programme was £5.4m in 2012.Half a percent share of council tax income is being set aside until 2032, although that arrangement's future will depend on Preston's successor council.Councillor Rawlinson said more money is needed for a "bigger and better than ever before" Guild.The first Preston Guild dates back to 1179 following King Henry II's decision to draw up a royal charter for the city and award it with the right to have a Guild Merchant.They became once-in-two-decade affairs from 1542 and have been staged rigidly to that timetable ever since except for the Second World War.
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