It’s a sad day for festival fans – summer 2015 will not feature one of the award-winning mainstays.

South London favourite LeeFest has announced it will take a fallow year.

Having grown from Lee Denny’s back garden in Beckenham, the festival has now gotten too big for its current home, a 2,500-capacity farm in Warlingham.

This summer was due to be LeeFest’s 10th birthday but now the plan is to take a break and come back at a bigger venue in 2016.

Now the festival director, Lee said: “LeeFest has reached another monumental stage in its exciting story. We could move to our new site in a hurry and pull off a reasonable party, but we’re more ambitious than that.

“The festival is still run entirely by volunteers, despite it’s exponential growth, so we don’t often get a chance to work on the big picture stuff.

“This is a unique opportunity for us to make LeeFest more sustainable, more creative and even more awesome in the long term.”

Over its past nine outings, the festival has picked up a reputation for exciting new music - giving slots to the likes of London Grammar, Clean Bandit and Bastille.

Go to http://leefest.org.uk/news/a-fallow-year/ for the full statement.