This year's Porthleven Food Festival is to be refocussed back to its core theme of "food" as organisers vow to take a step away from the music and accompanying drinking elements.

To emphasise this, the "And Music" part of the event title, added in recent years, is being removed for 2019 and the theme for this year's event, on April 26 to 28, will be "Love Food."

Town councillors met with Alec Short, director of events company Arc Live that now organises the festival with the volunteer committee, and Jon Perry, of JPS Event Consultancy, who is in charge of traffic management and health and safety, to give feedback on the 2018 event and hear plans for this year.

Last year's festival was the biggest in the event's history, with more than 35,000 people attending over the course of three days.

Some councillors wanted to hear how it would stay local and true to its food roots, and were told that there will be more localised food and greater opportunity to buy it.

Councillor Liz Lane said: "Unfortunately the music side encourages the more anti-social side. All my pots were thrown in my garden, things were smashed, there was broken glass - it's just not very pleasant for those that don't want to be part of the event itself."

Mr Short agreed, saying: "It's a food festival, not a music festival. We can't grow it any more, it's a case of making it better. We have done that adding more food throughout the village - where it was once music, it's now food."

He added that while the evening entertainment would still continue - with Friday being the event opening, Saturday a themed party and Sunday dedicated to musicians from Porthleven - the split of the event was now 75 per cent food and 25 per cent music.

There will be more live cooking demonstrations this year, around the harbour and in restaurants as well as in the Chefs' Theatre, with a similar calibre of chef on both Saturday and Sunday.

Mr Short said this year's theme was a "nod to diet fads that exist and pseudo science around food; just love food."

The layout of the festival will be similar to last year, with the epicentre moving more towards the shipyard and the Moors rather than the harbour, which got congested. The Harbour Head will have some open area seating and more food stalls, with "less of a hardcore drinking pull," said Mr Short.

The road closures around the central part of Porthleven will return and be extended, most likely back to Methleigh Bottoms, for all three days of the festival, but last year's residents' parking permit scheme will be replaced with a simple proof of residence such as a driver's licence.

Festival traffic from Penzance will be directed off at Ashton, while Helston traffic will be directed via Methleigh Bottoms.

Consideration was given to extending the road closure as far as the main A394 junction, but it was agreed that this could cause potential congestion to the main road as well as safety issues, with deputy mayor Bev Plunkett saying: "That road is very fast. They would see you standing there and just go round; another one coming the opposite direction and you'd have a head on [collision]."

Organisers are also working closely with bus company First to prevent another situation like last year, when Mr Perry claimed the firm took the decision to cancel buses to the port without speaking to organisers. "We didn't know there was an issue until we saw it on Twitter and Facebook," he said.

A park and ride service will also run from the free car park opposite Coronation Lake in Helston, 9am to 6pm on both weekend days, on a 20-minute loop, dropping people outside Porthleven Post Office for £2 return.