Temporary Event Notice (TEN)

A Temporary Event Notice (TEN) is given by an individual (a premises user) and authorises the premises user to conduct one or more licensable activities at a premises for no more than 168 hours.

TENs can be used to authorise relatively small-scale ad hoc events held in or on any premises involving no more then 499 people at any one time, subject to certain restrictions.

Temporary event notices (TENs) can be given to permit any or all of the following:

  • The sale of alcohol
  • The supply of alcohol to members of a registered club
  • Provision of late night refreshment - hot food or hot drink at any time after 23:00 or before 05:00.
  • Entertainment which is defined as:
    1. a performance of a play
    2. an exhibition of a film
    3. an indoor sporting event
    4. a boxing or wrestling entertainment
    5. a performance of live music
    6. any playing of recorded music
    7. a performance of dance
    8. entertainment of a similar description to that falling within paragraphs (5), (6) or (7), where the entertainment takes place in the presence of an audience and is provided for the purpose, or for purposes which include the purpose, of entertaining that audience
    9. facilities for making music
    10. facilities for dancing
    11. entertainment of a similar description to that falling within paragraphs (9) or (10).

Important Changes to the TENs procedure:

From 25th April 2012, legislation in the Licensing Act 2003 has been amended. A Temporary Event Notice will need to be given in writing to the Licensing Department, the Environmental Health Department and the Police.

There are now two types of Temporary Even Notices: standard and late. A standard Temporary Event Notice can be given no later than 10 working days before the event. A late Temporary Event Notice can be given no later than 5 working days before the event.

The number of notices that can be given by a personal licence holder is limited to 50 standard Temporary Event Notices or 10 late Temporary Event Notices. For any other person, it is limited to 5 standard Temporary Event Notices or 2 late Temporary Event Notices. Any notices received after that period will not be valid and any licensable activities carried on would be unlawful.

Section 193 of the Act defines "working day" as any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, or a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in England and Wales.

Please ensure that you attach enough postage to the envelope. Some letters are held by the post office for unpaid deficient postage and may be delivered too late for the TEN to be valid. An A4 envelope is classed as a Large Letter and should carry the appropriate postage.

The notice must be sent to the following address, accompanied by a fee of £21 (all cheques made payable to Winchester City Council):-

Licensing Department
Winchester City Council
City Offices
Colebrook Street
Winchester
SO23 9LJ

One copy must be sent to the Environmental Health Department at:

Environmental Protection
Winchester City Council
City Offices
Colebrook Street
Winchester
SO23 9LJ

One copy must be sent to the Police at:

Licensing Department
Hampshire Constabulary
North Walls Police Station
North Walls
Winchester
SO23 8DW

An application form for the above is available to download below. Please note that if you wish to fill the form in electronically, you can do this by downloading the Word document. To fill the form in manually, please download the adobe version below: