Municipality Opsterland: Applying for an event licence
If you wish to organise an event, you must notify the municipality and, in some cases, apply for a permit. You can check this online using the permit check (vergunningscheck).
For many small events, you do not need a permit. In such cases, you can provide notification of the event free of charge.
Find out moreLarge events with more than 2 000 visitors must be notified 16 weeks in advance. Smaller events must be notified 8 to 14 weeks in advance.
You do not need a permit in the following situations:
- there are fewer than 500 attendees
- the event is between 07.00 and 00.00.
- the event is not taking place on roads.
- the event will not disrupt traffic or shipping.
- the noise level will not exceed 75 dB(C) on the façades of dwellings in the immediate proximity of the event before 9.00 A.M. and after 11.00 PM.
- you can not place big objects, so you place a maximum of 2 small objects with a surface area of less than 10 m2 per object till maximum 50 m2 per street. Or 1 tent that meets the fire safety requirements (which means, among other things, that no more than 50 people are present in it at the same time)
- you report to the mayor within four weeks before the event, if the number of attendees is more than 200 people.
When a permit is required:
- the event is a large gathering, such as a festival, celebration, show or jumble sale.
- it may be attended by more than 250 people.
- the event may take place in several places at the same time.
- the event is on or next to a public road.
- the event makes it necessary to close a road.
- the event may disrupt the emergency services, such as the police or ambulances, for example due to a road closure.
- you expect noise nuisance.
- there will be music after 22.00 on a Sunday to Thursday, or after 23.00 on a Friday or Saturday.
- you are installing large objects such as tents, bouncy castles, bars or toilets.
Permit check
Carry out the permit check (in Dutch).
Notifying the event
Contact the municipality to notify your event. [contactgegevens gemeente]
The amount that you have to pay depends on the type of event that you are organising.
You pay a fee for this service. For more information, contact the municipality [contactgegevens].
You will be notified within 8 to 10 weeks. The municipality may extend this notice period once.