Organisers of the 21st Reading Beer and Cider Festival hope to be able to announce the plans for next year before renovation work at King’s Meadow baths forces them elsewhere.

The team behind the May Day bank holiday event are assuring residents that the show will go on wherever they manage to secure a future venue.

Phil Gill, secretary of the Reading and Mid Berkshire branch of Camra, said: “We are looking at where else we could do it but moving it in time is not an option because it is so well established. If we change the weekend it is bound to clash with some other Camra events so we need to find somewhere else that is free on the same dates.”

The four-day festival runs from April 30 to May 3 and will see more than 550 real ales and 150 real ciders on offer as well as perries, wines and locally produced food.

Although some opposition was made when developers Thames Lido submitted plans which would push the annual party out of the park, organiser insist they do not hold any grudges.

Mr Gill said: “There is no objection to bringing the lido back into use but it is just not compatible with holding an event. Unfortunately King’s Meadow is pretty much the perfect venue in terms of location and access and it’s established in people’s minds so it is not going to be an easy next move.”

On Monday, councillors agreed to leasing the land under and surrounding the Edwardian baths in the park to the company behind the regeneration project.

Despite the land still being free to public access their landscaping works would force the festival to move on to the lower part of the fields which are at risk of flooding.

Around two centuries ago the land closer to Napier Road was raised up away from the river Thames to make events safer.

Mr Gill added: “The message is that there is going to be a festival next year, we just don’t know where. I imagine it is going to be noticeably smaller but other than that it all depends on our solution.”