Absolutely. I have friends who don't have a TV and haven't had one for years. They had enormous hassle showing inspectors all around the house and they still got a summons! It took several phone calls and a second visit to convince the authoritaas that they didn't have a TV.
We had a TV licence inspector call before our house was even finished. It seems he was very dissappointed to hear there would be no-one living there for a least 6 months, I know what Radio J would have called him .......