Residents & Community

Welcome to the Love Trails Festival residents page. We’d like to say a huge thank you to the residents and the local community within the Gower Peninsula, for their continued support for Love Trails Festival over the years. 


We are committed to working with local residents and Swansea Council to not only minimise the festival's disruption, but also be involved in local projects. 


Our post event meeting was held on Thursday 29th August at 18:00 at Llanrhidian Village Hall. Thank you so much for those of you who wre able to attend.  The meeting was invaluable to hear your ideas, concerns and feedback from 2024 event, and enabled us to further establish some plans to minimise disturbance in 2025. If you would like a copy of our Post-Event Round-Up, please email [email protected] 


If you are a local resident and have any questions or queries, please use our dedicated resident email address, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can: [email protected]


Please also check our information below as it may answer some of your questions quickly.

Local Residents FAQs

Dedicated Residents Email 

We have a dedicated residents email address: [email protected]

Please email us any ideas, feedback or concerns you may have and we will be back to you as soon as possible 

Resident’s communication broadcast

With the aim of improving our direct communication with local residents, we have set up a specific resident contact list. If you or anyone you would like to add their email to our contact list, please share this link with them: https://form.typeform.com/to/iqMl7OaB . This will be to communicate things such as:

  • Future residents meetings

  • Future resident ticket information

  • Information on the one way system

  • Temporary speed limits and road crossings 

  • License details and site opening times

  • All the safety measures we are taking

  • Initiatives taken to minimise disruption and maximise positive impact on the Gower and Wales more widely. 

  • Requests for your input on ideas and planning 


Litter sweeps

We make a very conscious effort to ensure there is no litter, including a full site sweep and beach clean. If you have any litter concerns at all, please let us know the exact area / location and we will send someone to ensure it is covered ([email protected]). Please note, there may be other events going on which contribute to this but we will do our absolute best to ensure we leave what we touch just as we found it! 

Thank you for welcoming us to your beautiful area 

Thank you to those who purchased a 2024 resident ticket! Together you raised £1000 which was donated to Wales Air Ambulance. We raised a further £1160 to the Gower Society through our friends & family ticket scheme. 

Local residents in the noise catchment area of Love Trails Festival are eligible to festival tickets in exchange for a charitable donation.

We are in the process of revising our resident ticket policy following feedback from the local community and will publish details on here for 2025 as soon as this is done.

We really value our relationship with you as the local community, and hope you get to enjoy Love Trails Festival as much as we enjoy hosting it!

If you have a query regarding sound levels, please rest assured we have a dedicated sound team who during live event, work across the area, testing sound levels to ensure we are within the guidelines and licensing terms. If you are concerned that this is not being adhered to, please send your exact address and we can look into this. Sound is very much dependent on wind direction as well as a number of other factors but our team is constantly monitoring the levels in order to mitigate as much disruption as possible for locals. We do appreciate that by virtue of being a festival with music, this could cause an inconvenience for some members of the community and we thank you in advance for your patience and understanding for the period of our event.

As with previous years, we will be working closely with Swansea Council and Core Highways to determine the most efficient road system in/out of the festival in 2025.


We know traffic needs to be carefully managed during Love Trails Festival, and we truly appreciate your understanding and patience during the event. With the green light from Swansea Council and Swansea Highways, here’s how we’re planning to make sure traffic runs as safely and smoothly as possible in 2025.

  • Our One-Way System will be reviewed for 2025: To help manage the flow of traffic on arrival days, we will be looking at the one way system between Leason and Llandimore and how this can be further improved. Public buses & school buses will always  still have access both ways.


  • Temporary Speed Limits & Road Crossing: For everyone’s safety, we’re setting a temporary speed limit along the main road between Leason and Landimore, and on the road section around Stembridge Farm. We’ll also have traffic marshals in place at the road crossing between the main festival field and the campsite to manage the flow of traffic and ensure safety for adults and children. These will be in place from 12:00 Thursday  to 12:00 Monday of the event.


  • Safety Measures: We’ll have additional safety precautions like extra signage and traffic marshals to help the flow of traffic, to ensure everyone is safe, and that local residents are as undisturbed as possible.


  • We are putting on more coaches in 2025 from cities like London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff. This will help reduce the number of cars on the road.


We really appreciate your understanding and patience with traffic at Love Trails Festival. Thank you in advance for taking the diverted route if you need to travel during the event, we appreciate it disrupts your weekend.


If you would like to volunteer at Love Trails Festival, we'd love to hear from you! Please fill in our volunteer application form here and let us know you're from the local area so we can offer a role that suits you.

If you are a local business, we would love to help promote what you do to our Love Trails community.  We not only wish to promote this for the time of the live event, but also for when guests extend their stay, or come back to visit the Gower on future holidays (our feedback survey confirms they very often do!) 

Our website has over 178,000 unique users with 2.3 million page views over the course of a year, we have an email database of over 46,000 with a combined social following of 74,000. We hope with this reach we can really help drive awareness of your business.

Please Apply Here if you would like us to speak to you about promoting your business or idea.