Put in the date of your event and this gives you the last day the council can receive a standard TEN, and the window for a late one. Below that, add your events and it keeps a running count of what each premises has used this year.
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A Temporary Event Notice lets you sell alcohol, put on regulated entertainment or serve hot food late at night for a short event, without a premises licence. You give it to the council, and the council passes it to the police and environmental health. Nobody grants it. If nobody objects and you are inside the limits, the event is authorised.
The fee is £21. One notice can cover up to 168 hours, and no more than 499 people can be on the premises at once. That figure includes bar staff, stewards and the band.
Sports clubs are the biggest users. A cricket or rugby club with a club premises certificate needs a TEN to sell to non-members at a presentation night or open day. A village hall needs one for a bar at a wedding reception or a Christmas market. A pub needs one to open past its licensed hours for a late match or a bank holiday. A marquee at a fete, a pop-up bar and a beer festival in a field all need one too.
The trouble is rarely a single event. It is the count. 21 days goes quicker than it sounds, because any event that runs past midnight uses two. The council keeps its own tally and will refuse the notice that goes over.
A standard TEN has to reach the council at least ten working days before the event. The day it arrives does not count, and neither does the first day of the event. Weekends and England and Wales bank holidays do not count either, so an event after Easter or Christmas needs notice earlier than most people expect. A late TEN can be given between five and nine working days before.
Each premises can have 15 TENs covering 21 days in 2026. From 1 January 2027 that becomes 20 TENs and 26 days, subject to Parliamentary approval. Separately, the person giving the notices can give 5 a year, 2 of them late. With a personal licence that rises to 50, with 10 late.
Add each premises and its events below. The counts update as you go. You will get a warning when an event runs past 168 hours, starts less than 24 hours after another event at the same premises, or has more than 499 people. Running too long or with too many people gets a notice refused. Two events less than 24 hours apart make the later notice void, if the same person gave both or their family, agent, employee or business partner gave the other.
As at . Personal licence: no. Limit per person: 5 TENs a year, 2 late.
Made with the free TEN tracker at lexalytic.com/tools/ten-tracker.
This covers England and Wales under the Licensing Act 2003. Scotland and Northern Ireland use different systems. The limits and deadlines here are the statutory ones. Your council may ask for notice earlier, and a notice given earlier leaves more time to sort out an objection.
A TEN is a notice you give the council so you can carry on licensable activities at a one-off event. That covers selling alcohol, regulated entertainment such as live music, and hot food or drink between 11pm and 5am. It works for premises with no licence at all, and for licensed premises doing something their licence does not cover, such as opening later. The fee is £21. An event can last up to 168 hours and can have no more than 499 people present at any one time, including staff.
Two limits apply at once. The premises can have 15 TENs a year, covering no more than 21 days in total. From 1 January 2027 that rises to 20 TENs and 26 days, subject to Parliamentary approval. The person giving the notices has their own limit, which is 5 a year without a personal licence and 50 with one. Both run by calendar year, not a rolling twelve months.
Any part of a calendar day counts as a whole day. An event from 7pm on Friday to 1am on Saturday uses two days of the premises allowance, even though it only runs for six hours. Finishing at midnight instead keeps it to one. An event that runs from New Year's Eve into New Year's Day counts in both years, and we count it as one TEN in each.
A standard TEN must reach the council at least 10 working days before the event. A late TEN is given between 5 and 9 working days before. Neither count includes the day the council receives it or the day of the event, and weekends and bank holidays do not count. If the police or environmental health object to a standard TEN, the council holds a hearing. If they object to a late TEN, it is refused automatically and there is no hearing. You can give 2 late TENs a year without a personal licence and 10 with one.
The council issues a counter notice and the event has no authorisation. Selling alcohol or putting on regulated entertainment anyway is an offence under section 136 of the Licensing Act 2003. The penalty is an unlimited fine, up to six months in prison, or both. The premises count goes by the premises, so a notice given by a different committee member still uses up the same allowance.
No. Anyone aged 18 or over can give one. A personal licence raises your own limit from 5 TENs a year to 50, and your late TENs from 2 to 10. It does not change the premises limit, which stays at 15 TENs and 21 days in 2026 whoever gives the notices.
We build licensing and event trackers that sit alongside your bookings. The counts update when an event is confirmed, not when somebody remembers to check, and the whole committee sees the same figures.
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