POLICE bosses have outlined their requirements for a two-day summer music festival that could be held in Shoreham Airport next year.

The force said it has met with SJM Concerts, the promoters behind V Festival which have organised gigs with the likes of One Direction, to discuss their plans to hold a music festival for up to 70,000 people over the weekend of June 6 and 7.

However, police chiefs have said they want no more than 25,000 people on the site at any one time, with the potential for increased capacity for future events if suitable.

If given the go-ahead, police also want the provision of free drinking water on the site, a ban on glass bottles and a strict no-entry policy for anyone deemed to be drunk or on drugs.

Chief Inspector Will Rolls said he hoped the force’s requirements would be considered when councillors meet to discuss SJM’s application on January 7.

Jean Irving, Sussex Police's licensing and public safety manager, said: “We are not objecting to the planned event per se but are asking for the terms of the licence to be framed in such a way as to prevent any risk to public safety.

“Among the actions we have asked for are the creation of a suitable event management plan to detail how people can be evacuated from the site in an emergency and dispersed generally at the end of the event, details on how people will get to and from the site and an agreement that the planned policing costs of the event will be funded by the licence holder in advance.

“Our responsibility is to ensure the licensing objectives are promoted and that the event does not affect the right of local residents not to be disturbed by antisocial behaviour, noise or disorder.

“I would stress that we want to work with the organisers to find a way that their application is acceptable to us but in the end it will not be up to us but to the committee to decide whether the application should be approved or not.”

SJM submitted a premises licence application to Adur Council last month.

However, council leader Neil Parkin this week said he was disappointed the company had “jumped the gun” as he believed they were “still in negotiations” with the company about its plans.