A cutting edge music festival has scrapped its weekend Dales event.

Beacons Festival will no longer take place at its former home in Heslaker Farm in Skipton for one weekend in August from this summer, in a bid to make it more affordable.

Organisers have instead decided to re-launch the event, that will now be called Beacons Metro, in cities around the north over several weeks this autumn.

Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool are the lucky three cities that will play host to the new style event, which will bring a line up of music, film and art to industrial spaces.

The event is expected to come to Leeds in October, when the team behind it will take over an as yet un-named former textile mill in the heart of Leeds city centre, along with a host of other promoters and mini festivals.

They are now in the process of arranging refunds for those who had already bought early bird tickets to the three day camping event.

Beacons spokesman, Simon Stevens, said: “After a great deal of careful thought and consideration, the Beacons team would like to announce that for 2015, Beacons Festival will bidding farewell to the green fields and valleys of the Yorkshire Dales to take up a series of exciting residencies in Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool, three of the North of England’s most vibrant and creative cities.

Despite then feeling that 2014 was the best Beacons Festival so far, the feedback we received from the vast majority of festival goers in 2014 was that the cost of attending a traditional, camping festival was becoming increasingly difficult to meet.

Our desire to make Beacons more accessible combined with the opportunity to work with some amazing partners at some truly unique spaces, was enough to convince us that the time was right to move onto the next stage of the festival’s evolution.

“We’ll be collaborating with some amazing partners to deliver a full 12 week program of cutting edge music, art, film and food events in over 11,000 square feet of previously unused space.

“We’d like to apologise to all those who have already purchased early bird tickets for 2015. We have already contacted all customers and will be arranging full refunds as soon as possible.

“The team would also like to thank everyone who’s attended Beacons Festival in it’s various guises over the past years, we hope you’re as excited as we are about our plans for 2015”.