Temporary Event Notices

[funkydan]

do you have certain noise regrulations with a tens license, and would that be 96 hours worth of music?

[General Lighting]

Originally posted by funkydan

do you have certain noise regrulations with a tens license, and would that be 96 hours worth of music?

both depend on your planned location

most Councils have their own "noise bands" which change depending on how far or near you are to residential areas

for instance Councils in a rural bit of Breckland or North Norfolk would (I hope!) give more leeway than in Norwich city centre

if your target venue is near to houses the authorities may ask for a music curfew at 03:00 - 04:00

TBH I wouldn't go for 96 of music hours first time round as you are unlikely to get it, it would be a fairly stressful thing to pull of and if you fuck up you could get breached same as if it were an illegal - but its been tried and tested in some part of Norfolk in October 2006 and that event certainly went on from Saturday until Sunday afternoon without a break..

[Redhouse]

TENS objections:

The licencing authority can only object to a TENS if they are satisfied any limits outlined in the application will be exceeded, in other words make sure the TENS application covers absolutely everything you intend to do and that the time and date deadlines are sufficient to cover the event.

The only other authority that can object to a TENS are The Police and only on the grounds that the event could undermine the crime prevention obective of licencing. The objection must be made no later than 48 hours after the chief of police is given a copy of the TENS.

The licencing authority must hold a hearing for any objections and the only persons permitted to address the hearing are lawyers acting on behalf of either party, the authority objecting (police), the licencing authority and the applicant - breach of these terms becomes a case for The High Court. Whichever party 'loses' the hearing HAS THE RIGHT OF APPEAL to a magistrates court, but this must not be within 5 days of the event taking place. THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING RIGHT, AFFORDED BY THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND CANNOT BE WITHELD, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT THE HEARING CAN BE HELD IN GOOD TIME; therefore the licencing authority must make sure there is sufficient time for an appeal to be logged, otherwise they are in serious breach of their legal responsibilities.

As stated a TENS must be submitted 10 working days before the event. Be careful because weekends, bank holidays and some special holidays (i.e. easter) are not classed as working days. Legally a working day begins 00:00hours and ends one minute past 23:59 hours, the TENS can be submitted anytime in this period, but be sure to get a signed reciept and pay the fee. Even if it is 5:29pm on a friday afternoon and the licencing officer was just leaving for the weekend they are obliged by law to accept the TENS, the payment and issue a reciept - a note, they probably won't be too happy if you did this though.

Hope that helps too. :)

[Fett]

Originally posted by General Lighting

...OK the hearts and minds bit may not be easy due to past mistakes but what is actually holding people back?

Is it "fear of babylon" or more that EA ravers at present simply lack the organisational skills, discipline and comradeship required to even apply for such an event - or if one were to happen (some) perhaps couldn't be trusted to behave appropriately, so the more sensible people don't want to put their names on the line?

I had always thought the cops, council etc in EA were zero tolerance to every thing remotely resembling a rave, it has really got me interested now i know that there is a legal, and cheap way to do an event.

I am very much up for giving it a go, General Lighting.. would you be up for a collaboration? - i'll do all the donkey work, you can be my advisor.

What ya reckon?

[General Lighting]

Originally posted by Fett

I had always thought the cops, council etc in EA were zero tolerance to every thing remotely resembling a rave, it has really got me interested now i know that there is a legal, and cheap way to do an event.

I am very much up for giving it a go, General Lighting.. would you be up for a collaboration? - i'll do all the donkey work, you can be my advisor.

What ya reckon?

yep I'd be up for that... and there's loads of people round our way particularly the older lot what would be up for attending a decent event - will send you a PM..