Find out in two minutes whether the new rules apply to your gym or leisure centre. If they do, we turn the official guidance into a plan for your venue and keep you ready for inspection.
Four steps, and we do most of the work: find out whether the rules apply to you, build a plan for your venue, get your staff trained, and stay ready for inspection.
A single-room gym often stays under the 200-person limit, but add classes, a pool, a café and staff on a busy morning and a leisure centre can pass it easily. Our quick, no-email checker walks you through the official tests, counting your peak hour, to give you a straight answer and a printable record of your status in just two minutes.
We give you a brief questionnaire that any duty manager can answer, no security expertise needed. The result is a full plan that pulls in the government guidance but is written for your venue: who makes the PA announcement, how the pool and changing rooms are cleared, and where the gym floor and classes move to.
Duty managers, instructors, reception and lifeguards each need to know their part, across shifts and cover. We generate printable cue-cards with the exact scripts for your team to read and sign. Every read-confirmation is logged and matched to your latest safety plan, so compliance stays effortless.
We keep your whole compliance record in one place: your recorded capacity tier, your finished procedures, and your prepared regulator notifications. And we nudge you when the official guidance changes or an annual review is due, so nothing slips.
Not sure any of this applies to you yet? Whether your gym is even in scope comes down to one thing: how many people are in at once at your busiest hour.
It depends on your busiest hour, not your membership list. If you'd reasonably expect 200 or more people in at once (members, class-goers and staff, every area combined) at least from time to time, your venue is in the Act's standard tier. Many single-room gyms stay under that; multi-area leisure centres often don't.
It's heads in the building at once that count: gym floor, classes, pool, café and staff together at your busiest time. A 24-hour gym that never tops 120 is out; a leisure centre at 250 on a Saturday is in.
Check your peak hour in 2 minutes →Controlling access by membership or payment doesn't put you outside the rules, the guidance says so directly (para 4.7). Your total membership doesn't matter for scope, only how many are in at once.
What the standard tier means →The duty falls on whoever controls the premises. For an independent that's the owner-operator; for a council leisure centre it's usually the operator or trust, not the building owner. Franchisees should check their agreement.
Who carries the duty →Before you spend anything, with us or anyone else, here's what the Act and statutory guidance actually say about the standard tier:
What we sell is certainty: a plan you know matches the guidance, written for your venue, with proof your staff were made aware, instead of a generic template you hope is right.
Then you don't need the service, and we'll say so. The checker is free, takes two minutes and asks for no email. A single-room gym that never has 200 people in at once, even at peak, is out of scope. If that's you, keep a dated note of how you counted (the guidance asks that your basis could satisfy the SIA, para 4.25) and you're done.
No. The guidance is explicit that controlling access by membership or payment does not stop premises being publicly accessible (para 4.7). What matters is how many people are in at once at your busiest hour, not how many members you have on the books. A members-only leisure centre is treated like any other venue.
Just how many are in at once. Scope is about your busiest hour: gym floor, classes, pool, café and staff all present at the same time. A gym with thousands of members but never more than 120 people in the building at once is out of scope; a leisure centre that hits 250 on a Saturday morning is in.
It depends who controls the premises, so check your franchise or management agreement. For an independent gym it's the owner-operator; for a council leisure centre it's usually the operator or trust that runs it, not the building's owner. If you're a franchisee, your agreement should say where the duty sits, and the service works whoever holds it.
Want the full legal detail? Read our guide to the standard tier or the whole-Act FAQ.
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Written by the Martyn's Law Plan team, based on the statutory guidance published under the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025. Last reviewed: . General information, not legal advice.