Police don’t want a Young Farmer’s party to be given a licence to sell alcohol over fears about underage drinking.

Clwyd  Young Farmers  are organising a barn party at Tan Lan farm in Llaneffydd, Conwy for Saturday, June 16.

But their bid to sell booze will be discussed at a meeting of Conwy’s licensing sub committee  on Wednesday after North Wales Police raised an objection to a application for a licence to supply alcohol, made by county organiser Eleri Vaughan Roberts.

She wrote in her application: “We will hire SIA door supervisors and sniffer dogs in case of any drugs to help us with these four objectives, we will have two way radio equipment and this will be with us during the whole of the evening.

“We will have plastic glasses all the time and no glass bottles will go over the bar.

“We will also have volunteered stewards that will help on the night and they will be trained and will wear luminous jackets all the time.”

The event is due to take place in a shed on the farm from 8pm to 1am. Organisers plan to have a colour coded wrist band system to ensure that those under the age of 18 are not served alcohol.

But Aaron Haggas, central licensing manager at North Wales Police, believes these measures are insufficient.

Writing to the committee  he feared youngsters under the age of 18 will have access to alcohol. He said that bodycam footage taken by an officer at last year’s event showed children drunk at the event and arriving having pre-loaded with alcohol.

He also saw reckless driving by attendees and added the car park was not sufficiently managed.

One child aged 17 was seen to be “paralytic” and unable to stand, friends stated that he was relatively sober when he arrived at the event.

Officers had concerns about the use of volunteer stewards and that the wrist band system would not be enough to stop under age drinking.

In a letter to the committee, Mr Haggas said: : “An additional concern is that the event organiser has no control over attendees and is unsure of the number of attendees. Local young farmer groups are invited to attend but there is no structure in place in terms of ticket sales, who is purchasing tickets, organised transport. The organiser has the responsibility of managing an unknown number of people who may arrive drunk and who may be children for the duration of the event or until a responsible adult can collect them. This level of responsibility placed on the organiser is further impeded in that the location of the event is a remote rural location.”

Should the committee agree to grant the licence officers ask that safeguards be put in place including that the event should have advance ticket sales only, no children under 18 be allowed attend and no alcohol be allowed in the vehicles bringing attendees.

A hearing on the objection will take place next Wednesday at the Town Hall in Llandudno.