Find out in two minutes whether the new rules apply to your pub. 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 pub, get your staff trained, and stay ready for inspection.
Most small local venues stay under the 200-person limit, but if you have a large garden, a function room, or get packed on match days, you might fall under the new rules. Our quick, no-email checker walks you through the official tests 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 landlord can answer, no security expertise needed. The result is a full plan that pulls in the government guidance but is written for your pub: who cuts the music and makes the announcement, where regulars go if the street isn't safe, and which doors bolt from inside.
High staff turnover at pubs makes compliance difficult. We generate printable cue-cards with the exact emergency 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 pub is even in scope comes down to one thing: how many people are in on your busiest night.
It depends on your busiest realistic night, not your average one. If you'd reasonably expect 200 or more people at once (customers plus staff, beer garden included) at least from time to time, your pub is in the Act's standard tier. Most small locals stay under that; plenty of food-led and match-day pubs don't.
The 200 includes your staff, and the whole premises counts. The guidance's own worked example puts a café with 180 inside and 30 on the terrace in scope. Your beer garden is part of your pub.
Full counting walkthrough for pubs →Quiet on a Tuesday doesn't save you. Televised matches, band nights and festival weekends that predictably pass 200 put you in scope all year, because "from time to time" is the legal test.
The "from time to time" rule explained →The duty falls on whoever controls the premises, and the guidance's own example makes a licence-holding brewery, not its tenant, the responsible person. Confirm who holds yours before you act.
Tenant or pubco: who's responsible? →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 building, 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. If you're under 200 even on your busiest realistic night, 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.
It depends who holds the premises licence and really controls the pub. The statutory guidance's own example says a brewery that owns a leased pub and holds the licence is the responsible person, not the tenant. Check before you buy anything, from us included. Either way the procedures run through you and your staff, so a written division of tasks is worth having.
Probably, because recurring peaks count. If televised matches or band nights predictably take you past 200 including staff, your pub is in scope even if midweek is quiet. The service builds your plan around those peak nights, on the staffing you actually have, not an imaginary security team.
No, because the law doesn't. The standard tier requires procedures, not equipment or personnel, and the guidance states it is not mandatory to use third-party products or services to comply (para 6.7). If your plan needs kit you don't have, it's the wrong plan.
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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.