Five worked examples you can open right now

Saturday street market

Twenty-eight stalls in two runs facing each other across Mill Row, with cross lanes so shoppers can get through. The stalls beside a lane are corner spots and priced as such.

40 stalls · 18 confirmed · 8 held · 70m × 21m · 4 corner spots

Outdoor arts festival

A field laid out as a small town: named streets, vendor rows either side of Cross Lane, a fire lane kept clear along the bottom, and a forty-eight seat bandstand block sitting inside it. Booths and seats on one site without either pretending to be the other.

48 booths · 96 seats · 73 confirmed · 26 held · 120m × 56m · 8 corner spots

Air show

Everything behind the crowd line, because that boundary decides the whole layout: exhibitor booths either side of the gate lane, a grandstand facing the flight line, press positions sold by name rather than as an area, food carts on a pitch each, and parking as named blocks a steward can say on a radio.

28 booths · 480 seats · 16 pitches · 8 blocks · 264 confirmed · 88 held · 656ft × 551ft

Marquee wedding

One venue, four different things: ceremony seating either side of the aisle, twelve round tables laid for a hundred and twenty covers, a drinks reception, and the marquee poles exactly where they really are.

96 seats · 12 tables · 6 pitches · 57 confirmed · 19 held · 30m × 32m

Indoor trade show

Thirty shell-scheme stands across three floors of a hall, with the structural columns marked so nobody sells a stand that has a pillar through the middle of it.

30 stands · 15 confirmed · 5 held · 80m × 50m