If you do not watch live television, you do not require a television licence. As such, you have no obligation to TVL.

Although their letters state that you should inform them if you do not require a licence, you are under no obligation to have any communications with TVL whatsoever:

You are perfectly entitled to ignore letters from TVL, and to refuse their employees access to your home.

You are only required to grant access to your property if you are presented with a valid search warrant, and only insofar as the terms of the warrant allow (e.g., it will allow them to check the living areas for televisions, but not to inspect your sock drawer).

Right of Access

Although houses and flats are private property, domestic property has an "implied right of access" to permit services such as postal delivery.

This means that the door bell or letter box (and the means to access to them) may be used to contact the owner of the property without their prior permission.

This right can be withdrawn from specific parties, simply by writing to them to state that you withdraw this right from their organisation.

You may receive a reply, implying that you must provide your name or that TVL still reserve the right for an inspector to call. Both of these statements are incorrect, as they will be liable to civil action if they visit your property without permission.

TVL have confirmed, under a Freedom of Information request (RFI20090807), that they do not require your name. They may state that it is "important for them" or that they require it to "update their data in accordance with the Data Protection Act", but the responsibility for complying with the Data Protection Act lies entirely with TVL.

After receipt of a withdrawal request, TVL should then classify your property as a "stop" in their database. This appears to prevent letters and visits for approximately two years (at which point they will resume, since the assumption is that you may have moved).