Councillors James Ryan and Chris Parker raised the subject at an extraordinary meeting of the council on Wednesday night, Cr Parker calling for a vineyards concert policy and Cr Ryan calling for an interim policy not to approve more than one major effect on the same day.
While Cr Parker's motion was passed, Cr Ryan's was thwarted after Mayor Alison Davey used her casting vote to make it out.
The councillors are interested that two major artists are engaged to work at two separate Pokolbin venues on March 26, Santana at Hope Estate and Lionel Ritchie at Bimbadgen Estate.
Cr Ryan said he was frustrated that some councillors thought bigger was best and said that it would be to the hurt of other wineries in the area.
He said traffic and adjustment problems were his biggest issues.
Michael Hope, of Hope Estate, said his development application for the case was lodged with the council in July, about the same week Bimbadgen Estate lodged its application for the Lionel Ritchie concert. Bimbadgen's original application was for its case to be held on March 12 but it revised the application amending the escort to March 26.
Neither issue has been approved.
"If we get by the Greens grandstanding and appear at the facts, the traffic at a concert clash in February [Tom Jones/Whitney Houston] was not an issue," Mr Hope said.
"The finishing times were staggered and if anything there were less buses on the route with Rover Coaches 'doubling up' approximately 30 buses over both events."
He said the Cessnock City Council's traffic committee met recently and endorsed the fact that there could be two events on the same night.
Cr Parker was not positive and said double bookings needed to be stopped.
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