On receipt of your Notification, the Licensing Authority will validate and return the Notice to you. The validated Notice does not have to be displayed, but must be available to view (eg on phone/tablet/laptop), at the premises to which it relates, for the duration of the event.
If either the Chief Officer of Police, or the Council's Pollution Control Team, believes the event would undermine the Licensing Objectives, then they may serve an Objection Notice on the Licensing Authority and the premises user. This Notice must be served within three working days of their receipt of the TEN, which may not necessarily be the day that the Licensing Authority received your application.
Where an Objection Notice is served, then we will hold a Hearing. If it is considered appropriate for the promotion of the Licensing Objectives, then the Licensing Authority may issue a Counter Notice, which invalidates the TEN.
If the Licensing Authority considers that it is not appropriate to issue a Counter Notice, it may serve a Notice of Conditions. It can only do so where the premises concerned is the holder of a Premises Licence or Club Premises Certificate and the Licensing Authority consider that it is appropriate that the relevant conditions on the Licence/Certificate should be attached to the TEN.
A decision must be made at least 24 hours before the beginning of the event.
The Chief Officer of Police or the Council's Pollution Control Team may, after serving an Objection Notice as above, modify the TEN with the consent of the premises user. In such a case the Objection Notice will then be deemed to have been withdrawn.
In the case of a Late TEN, in the event of an Objection Notice being received from the Chief Officer of Police or the Council's Pollution Control Team, then the Licensing Authority will issue a Counter Notice immediately without holding a Hearing.
Counter Notices may also be served by the Licensing Authority in a number of other circumstances, such as, when the number of permitted events has exceeded the premises or personal limit.