Licensing & Licensed Staff
A barn, a warehouse, a marquee, an office atrium — the best event spaces are often the ones with no bar and no licence. We apply for the Temporary Event Notice, act as your named premises user, and put trained bar staff on the floor under that authority.
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The Licensing Problem
Serving alcohol at an unlicensed space needs authorisation, and the paperwork has deadlines that do not move. Most organisers find this out late, which is the expensive way to find out.
No Premises Licence
Village halls, marquees, warehouses, private grounds and office spaces usually hold no licence at all. Selling a drink — or including one in a ticket price — needs authorisation before the doors open.
The Deadline Is Real
A standard Temporary Event Notice needs at least 10 working days with the council, and the police and environmental health can object. Miss it and the event runs dry, moves, or breaks the law.
Nobody Holds a Licence
Someone has to be named on the notice, and someone competent has to handle age checks and refusals on the night. For a one-off event, most organisers have neither.
Allowances Run Out
A single premises can be covered by only 15 notices and 21 days in a calendar year. A venue running a busy season can exhaust its allowance without realising until an application is refused.
£150
Per Notice, + VAT
£25
Licensed Staff, Per Hour + VAT
30 Days
Notice We Ask For
499
Max Attendance Under a TEN
What We Handle
Three things stand between an unlicensed space and a legal bar. We can take all three, or whichever ones you are missing.
Worth Knowing
Temporary Event Notices are generous but finite. These are the statutory limits, and they are the ones most organisers meet for the first time when something is refused.
Planning a December event? Working back from 30 days, that means talking to us by early November — and earlier if your venue has already used part of its annual allowance.
General information, not legal advice. Licensing decisions rest with the local authority, and requirements vary by council and by premises.
Being Straight About It
We would rather set this out now than have it discovered on the night.
Common Questions
If alcohol is being sold, or supplied as part of a ticket price, the venue needs authorisation. Many spaces — village halls, marquees, warehouses, offices, private grounds — have no premises licence at all. A Temporary Event Notice covers a one-off event at an unlicensed space, or activity outside what an existing licence permits.
A TEN authorises licensable activity at a specific place, for a specific period, for up to 499 people at any one time including your staff. It is given to the local council, who notify the police and environmental health. Both can object, which is why the notice period matters.
We ask for 30 days. The statutory minimum for a standard notice is 10 working days, but that leaves no room for a query from the licensing authority, a bank holiday, or a change to your plans. For a December event that means talking to us by early November.
£150 + VAT per Temporary Event Notice, which includes the application and acting as your named premises user. Licensed staff are £25 + VAT per hour, charged for the hours you actually need rather than a minimum day.
Yes, and they are worth planning around. A premises can be covered by a maximum of 15 notices per calendar year, totalling no more than 21 days. Each personal licence holder may give up to 50 notices a year. If your venue runs a busy season, the allowance can be used up sooner than expected.
The venue is. We put trained staff on the floor to run age checks, refusals and the refusals register on your behalf, authorised by our premises user, and we act as premises user for the notice — but the legal duty to prevent underage sales sits with the premises, not with PintPod.
Get In Touch
Where it is, when it is, and roughly how many people. We will tell you what authorisation you need, whether the dates still work, and what it costs.
We will come back to you with what authorisation your event needs and whether the timings still work.