IT is Scotland's biggest outdoor party and an event more usually associated with high jinks and rock and roll than careful consideration for the neighbours.

But for environmental manager Steve Taylor, T in the Park is an opportunity to show just how good a steward of the land the three day bash can be.

Mr Taylor is facing a new challenge this year as the festival moves from its home at Balado in Perth and Kinross to a new base at Strathallan Estate, and it is his job to ensure that the event doesn't become a blight on the landscape and that protecting the environment takes top billing along with the performers.

T in the Park attracts 85,000 music fans each day, and Mr Taylor is a veteran of the event since it set up at Balado for the first time in 1997, becoming its environmental manager in 2008.

He said: "It's quite a big job, and we start in January with an environmental work group made up of people like SEPA and Scottish Water.

"That means we know what we have to do when the festival rolls around in July. Each year we put it all together and now we have a very experienced team that have gone on to work at other festivals."

Among the concerns Mr Taylor and his team need to address are keeping any nearby streams and lochs clear of pollution, ensuring that litter is cleared and recycled and that wildlife is not adversely affected by the presence of so many people and so much noise and heavy equipment.

He and his team have helped T in the Park win awards from the Greener Festival group for seven years in a row along with a Gold Standard from SEPA, and this year they hope that work at Strathallan will also be commended.

One noted success at Balado was a drop in the level of phosphates in nearby Loch Leven, which can be raised by human waste breaching water courses.

However, the switch to Strathallan was not without controversy, and two public consultations on the application were held before councillors gave the go-ahead.

But first the wellbeing of endangered ospreys which were nesting at the site had to be assured, and a plan was launched to ensure that the birds could breed in peace.

Mr Taylor, who was also environmental manager for the festival of events surrounding Glasgow's Commonwealth Games last year, said: "The osprey nest was a big challenge this year, and we've actually moved the placing of the main stage so that they birds and their chicks will not be disturbed.

"We also changed the construction schedule so that any chicks would not be affected while they are vulnerable.

"Wildlife is a chief concern and we've also had people on site to ensure that any trees which we're had to remove are not being used by bats to roost in. If they are, we leave the alone."

T in the Park takes place from July 10-12, with the estate playing host to bands including Kasabian, The Libertines and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

This being Scotland, rain is Mr Taylor's biggest headache, with storms in 2012 among the most memorable challenges he and his team have had to overcome.

He said: "The amount of rain we had then would have shut down other festivals and it was all hands to the pump. But we got through that.

"However, one of my proudest moments came a couple of years ago when the chief planning officer for Scotland came to visit the site once the festival was over.

"He said that he'd tried to find it before the meeting, and couldn't see it. So it looks like we are doing our job."