There's no issue with hundreds of people wandering around a massive outdoor car park, if you're going to compare it to something, then at least go for something that could possible be considered more contentious, like St Stephens.
It's the health department at HCC that have driven this and it's not because they've got some ulterior motive, it's just so that there can be no possibility of anything coming back on them. Basically, they took the easy option and avoided any risk at all, despite that risk being very small.
There would be more distance between a few hundred people in a 25,000 seat stadium than there will be between those milling about at a market.
