Popular Lake District music festival Kendal Calling has been cancelled with organisers blaming a lack of guidance from the Government.
Announcing the decision to fans on Monday morning, bosses of the event, which was set to start on July 29, said the lack of a Government-backed insurance scheme and the delay to the publication of results from the Events Research Programme (ERP) had contributed to the "heart-breaking" decision.
They have now called on the Government to "reappraise its approach" and "listen to the recommendations of its own reports", as PA reports.
Headliners were set to include Stereophonics and Dizzee Rascal, with the 2020 event having also been cancelled due to the pandemic.
This meant that following the Government's decision to push back the end of social distancing to July 19, Kendal Calling may have still been able to go ahead.
However, festival bosses set out their reasons for postponing for a second consecutive year, to July 2022, in a letter to ticket holders.
They said: "Last Monday saw the delay of the so-called 'Freedom Day'.
"As Kendal Calling sits outside of this delay we would still be in a strong position to proceed.
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"But Monday also saw a less publicised delay; the release of the long-awaited research from the Event Research Programme (ERP) pilot events, which would inform the publication of crucial new safety guidance on how we run events.
"Without this safety guidance, there are numerous aspects of the festival we cannot plan, and which could lay us wide open to last minute unforeseen regulations or requirements we may be required to adhere to, any of which could scupper an already built festival."
Organisers said cancelling in 2020 had been "sad but understandable" but that doing the same this year was both "heart-breaking" and "infuriating".
They claimed that a decision had been made to "hold back" the ERP report, which was "insulting to our entire industry".
In the letter, organisers said they were invited last week to apply for the next phase of the Government's live events pilot scheme, which would have allowed the festival to go ahead, but that on Saturday night they were told another camping festival had been chosen.
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Heavy metal festival Download is currently taking in Donington Park in Leicestershire with a reduced capacity as part of the programme, and more pilot events are expected to be announced in the next month.
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Kendal Calling bosses said the lack of a Government-backed insurance scheme in case of cancellations had also been a factor in their decision.
"If calls for a government-backed insurance scheme had been heeded we could have potentially continued over the coming weeks," they said.
"We take this opportunity to urge the government to re-appraise its approach and to listen to the recommendations of its own reports."
Last month the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee warned that 海角视频 festivals were facing a "lost summer" as a result of the Government's decision not to introduce a coronavirus insurance scheme.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has been contacted for comment.
Kendal Calling will now take place from July 28 to July 31 2022.