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With a TENS the worst they can do is say no and even then you have a right of appeal, whereas even with landowners permission an illegal rave can be busted hard and your rig taken. Also action both civil and criminal can be (and sometimes is) launched against the landowner, and all it takes is for one person in the area to disagree and call 999 to a illegal rave.

Organisers of illegal events in my area have had a lot of equipment confiscated and destroyed, and some have even gone to prison.

A TENS event is licensed so you would be subject to the same protection as any legit entertainment business (provided you remain within noise bands for your area).

what country/region of the UK are you in?

At present only the Police and Council can object to it on grounds of “crime or disorder” rather than nimbys. If you and your crew and crowd aren’t known for causing trouble they are very unlikely to do so. That said, the new Government is trying to change the laws to give locals more say but this is unlikely to happen before the end of the year.

In most cases they are much more likely to let you have the event and leave you alone, provided you can show you’ve taken adequate steps to keep people safe and avoid noise pollution.

thought I’d bump this as the laws haven’t yet been changed to make it harder and if anything cops in some areas are dropping hints they’d be willing to accept TENS apps more than previously.

I know of at least two this year in Essex – they don’t get talked about on here as much because they are so popular they don’t need to advertise and the 400+ tickets sell out quickly – plus sometimes no publicity is better than giving a voice and platform to the nimbys, but Essex is one of the hardest places to get a EDM event licensed as it was rinsed “back in the day” by both legal and unlicensed events….

I know some people are unhappy with the concept of being held accountable by the authorities but TBH that will happen to UME organisers anyway when they get caught, and for a younger person with local community links to farming etc it might not be so bad if they can genuinely run a safe, friendly local event…

it must be less hassle now and less cost than driving 100-200 miles to a bait event what gets busted, and they don’t need fuckloads of security either if well run, the one I went to a few years ago just had some hippys in yellow hi vis vests with decent UHF radios, and if there were “heavier” security they kept themselves discreet – if you don’t have lots of kids being bluelighted off site to the ED from overdoing drugs or fighting then the authorities do leave you alone…

there was one just recently in North Essex, the nimbys did whinge “could be heard in the next county” but the location was Bures and the Stour runs through the village (its the blue thing in the map below) so half is in Essex and the other half in Suffolk 😉

[map]bures, essex, UK[/map]