Temporary Event Notices
A Temporary Event Notice (TEN) is a notification given by an
individual to the Council giving notice of an event that is to take
place.
TENs replace the existing 'occasional permissions' and 'occasional
licences' systems and relate to temporary events with less than 500
attendees where 'licensable activities' are planned to take
place.
You can use a TEN for:
- Authorising a licensed activity at a premises not currently
licensed - e.g. selling alcohol at a school fete
- Temporarily extending the hours you may provide a licensed
activity at an existing licensed premises
- Providing licensable activities not authorised by your existing
licence
Criteria for Temporary Event Notices
Your TEN must be given to the Council no later than 10
working days before the day on which the event period
begins, and must be accompanied by the prescribed fee of
£21.00.
Other limitations on TENS are:
- The person giving the Temporary Event Notice is known as the
Premises User
- The premises user must be over 18 years old
- Personal Licence Holders may give up to 50 notices per year
(see below)
- Non personal licence holders may only give up to 5 notices per
year
- Each event may last no more than 96 hours and there must be at
least 24 hours between events
- No premises may be used more than 12 times per calendar
year
- No premises may be used for greater than 15 days per calendar
year in total (i.e. 1 January - 31 December)
- No more than 499 persons can attend the event
Temporary events guidance
For further advice, please consult the temporary events guide, which provides
more information as to how to complete and serve a TEN, and
provides the answers to 'frequently asked questions'.
Temporary Event Notice applications
Those requiring a TEN must use the temporary event
notice application form.