An extra £40,000 will be spent this year on improved parking at the Royal Welsh Show in case of wet weather, the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society has announced.
Precautionary measures, including providing an additional 54 acres for parking, have been taken by the society to help avoid the problems experienced last year when dozens of cars got stuck in muddy fields following torrential rain.
The extra parking will cost some £20,000 while servicing the new parks with shuttle buses will cost a similar amount, show director, Harry Fetherstonhaugh, told the society’s annual meeting today.
Mr Fetherstonhaugh said 800m of new drains would have been installed on the showground for the 2008 event from July 21 to 24 and 1,700m of new stone roads laid in car and caravan parks owned by the society.
They include a car park for disabled visitors and the members’ caravan park.
Changes in the show layout and traffic management plan include the former judges’ and stewards’ car park to be used for livestock lorry and trailer parking for cattle and sheep, and a car park previously used by the public changed to accommodate judges’ and stewards’ vehicles, with tracking laid to create spinal and lateral roads to ensure use in all weathers.
And to avoid a repeat of last year’s parking problems, the society is making available drier fields on three major approaches to the Llanelwedd showground in Builth Wells.
Mr Fetherstonhaugh said: “I hope you will agree that the society has taken some very real and positive steps following the experiences of last year.”
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