# Martyn’s Law Risk Assessment: The Enhanced Tier Framework

> Understand Martyn's Law risk assessment duties for UK venues. OnePlan helps you build spatially evidenced, defensible compliance plans.

**Published:** 2026-09-22 | **Updated:** 2026-10-31 | **Author:** oneplansync
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*Written by: Paul Foster, Founder, CEO, OnePlan | Last updated: October 9, 2026*

## Key Takeaways

- Martyn’s Law (Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025) requires Enhanced Tier premises and qualifying events (800+ people) to submit a formal terrorism risk assessment to the SIA.
- Standard Tier premises (200–799 people) must put public protection procedures in place and document them, but they do not submit a formal risk assessment.
- The compliance document follows an eight-section structure covering scope, threat assessment, existing controls, vulnerabilities, mitigations, proportionality justification, emergency procedures, and governance.
- A simple four-step process helps you work through those eight sections: understand your position, consider your options, implement your approach, and review.
- Assessments must be reviewed annually and after operational or threat-level changes, with revised documents resubmitted to the SIA within 30 days.
- OnePlan provides to-scale site planning and crowd-flow calculators that help venues build the spatial evidence needed to demonstrate proportionality under Martyn’s Law.

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## Which Premises Legally Need a Martyn’s Law Risk Assessment?

The Act creates two distinct tiers of obligation. [The statutory guidance](https://gov.uk/government/publications/the-terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-statutory-guidance) defines Enhanced Tier premises as those where 800 or more individuals can reasonably be expected to be present at the same time, from time to time, for a Schedule 1 use. These premises, and any qualifying events meeting the same threshold with controlled entry, must produce a formal terrorism risk assessment and submit it to the SIA.

The Standard Tier threshold needs careful reading. [Home Office guidance from 15 April 2026](https://gov.uk/government/news/martyns-law-guidance-published-to-help-businesses) describes smaller premises such as shops and restaurants with 200–799 people as the lighter tier, and [other authoritative commentary](https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/clarity-on-martyns-law-compliance) also cites 200–799 as the Standard Tier band. However, some secondary sources disagree on whether the lower threshold is 100 or 200. The Act and the GOV.UK statutory guidance are the definitive reference, so duty-holders should check the [official statutory guidance](https://gov.uk/government/publications/the-terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-statutory-guidance) directly for the confirmed lower threshold.

Commencement is expected in spring 2027 at the earliest, following the Act’s minimum 24‑month implementation period from Royal Assent on 3 April 2025. The regime is not yet in force, but statutory guidance is published and preparation is underway across the sector.

## Standard Tier Duties: Practical Steps You Must Take

Standard Tier premises are not legally required to complete a formal terrorism risk assessment. The core duty is procedural. The responsible person must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that appropriate public protection procedures are in place covering evacuation, invacuation, lockdown, and communication. Those procedures must be documented, communicated to staff, and capable of rapid, effective implementation.

[The Home Office published an illustrative case study for a 400‑seater restaurant](https://gov.uk/government/news/martyns-law-guidance-published-to-help-businesses) covering six areas:

- **Evacuation:** one route through the main entrance onto a public pavement and another through a side door into a different area
- **Invacuation:** bringing people into the main restaurant area and, if needed, staff areas
- **Lockdown:** nominated individuals knowing when and how to lock doors, close window shutters, and turn off lights
- **Communication:** staff knowing who enacts procedures and how to communicate with customers
- **Training and awareness:** a short induction briefing alongside health and fire safety inputs
- **Review:** annually or when there is any significant change in the restaurant’s setup

This standard is proportionate to the risk profile of smaller premises. The government has expressly stated that [organisations do not need to hire consultants to comply](https://gov.uk/government/publications/the-terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-statutory-guidance), and the Home Office designed the guidance to reflect that intent.

## The Steps of a Martyn’s Law Risk Assessment

Enhanced Tier premises must produce a compliance document that follows a logical, evidence-based sequence. One practical way to work through that sequence is a four-step process developed by [United Outcomes, a private consultancy](https://united-outcomes.com/insights/martyns-law/martyns-law-what-weve-learnt-helping-venues-prepare/), drawing on operational counter-terrorism experience.

1. **Understand Your Current Position.** Establish the terrorism threat types relevant to the premises or event. Consider marauding attacks, vehicle-borne attacks, hostile reconnaissance, and device placement. Use the current UK threat level published by MI5 and the specific characteristics of the site.
2. **Consider Your Options.** Evaluate how the physical layout, crowd patterns, ingress and egress points, perimeter characteristics, and operational practices create or reduce exposure to each identified threat.
3. **Implement Your Approach.** Select and document public protection measures across monitoring, movement, physical safety and security, and information security. Ensure they are appropriate and reasonably practicable for the specific site.
4. **Review and Maintain.** Establish a governance cycle. Carry out an annual review as a minimum, and trigger additional reviews after operational change, threat-level shifts, or significant incidents.

This four-step process maps directly onto the eight-section document structure in the next section. The first two steps align with scope, threat assessment, existing controls, and vulnerabilities. Implementation aligns with mitigations, proportionality justification, and emergency procedures. Review and maintain aligns with governance and review.

## The Section-by-Section Structure of an Enhanced Tier Terrorism Risk Assessment

Enhanced Tier duty-holders need a clear view of the document they must submit. The following numbered framework gives UK venue and event operators a section-by-section foundation they can work from, with worked examples drawn from realistic UK scenarios.

1. **Scope and Applicability.** State the premises name, address, Schedule 1 use, the responsible person, and the designated senior individual. Confirm the tier classification and the methodology used to calculate the greatest number of individuals reasonably expected at the same time. A ticketed music festival, for instance, might use ticket sales data plus staff headcount to establish a 1,800‑person peak, placing it firmly in the Enhanced Tier.
2. **Threat Assessment.** Describe the terrorism threat types relevant to the site. Example: a city-centre arena identifies marauding attack with knives or firearms, vehicle-borne attack at drop-off points, and hostile reconnaissance of entry queues as the primary threat vectors, consistent with the current UK threat picture.
3. **Existing Controls.** Document what is already in place before new mitigations are added. Include CCTV coverage, existing bag search policy, stewarding ratios, and current evacuation signage. This establishes the baseline against which proportionality is judged.
4. **Vulnerabilities.** Map existing controls against identified threats to expose gaps. Example: a racecourse has a three‑kilometre perimeter and eight official ingress points. Unmarked perimeter sections where movement is difficult to monitor are a clear vulnerability. [The Home Office’s supplementary scope examples](https://gov.uk/government/publications/the-terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025/non-statutory-supplementary-document-b-scope-illustrative-examples-accessible) confirm that physical layout evidence feeds directly into this analysis.
5. **Mitigations.** For each vulnerability, state the selected measure and why it was chosen. Example: for the racecourse perimeter, concentrated monitoring at the main entrance and stands, race-day sweeps of the wider premises, and unpredictable patrols during race days were determined to be reasonably practicable and appropriate mitigations.
6. **Proportionality Justification.** Explain why each measure is or is not implemented, referencing the cost, time, and difficulty of alternatives. Spatial evidence such as to-scale plans, crowd-capacity figures, and ingress or egress modelling does its heaviest work here. See the section on spatial evidence below.
7. **Emergency Procedures.** Summarise the evacuation, invacuation, lockdown, and communication procedures derived from the assessment findings. Confirm they are documented, communicated to staff, and capable of rapid implementation. For a full treatment of emergency procedure development, see [Martyn’s Law Emergency Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://oneplan.io/articles/martyns-law-emergency-planning-guide/?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent).
8. **Governance and Review.** Name the senior individual responsible for compliance, state the review cycle, and confirm the document will be submitted to the SIA and resubmitted within 30 days of any revision.

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## What Does ‘Reasonably Practicable’ Mean Under Martyn’s Law?

One phrase runs through almost every section of that structure: reasonably practicable. It is the test that determines which mitigations a venue must adopt, so it deserves clear explanation before you start drafting.

[The Act defines reasonably practicable as proportionate](https://gov.uk/government/publications/the-terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-statutory-guidance). The responsible person must weigh what can be done to achieve the objectives of procedures and measures against the cost, time, and difficulty of implementation. A village hall and a city-centre arena face different expectations because their resources and risk profiles differ.

[The Home Office’s racecourse worked example](https://gov.uk/government/publications/the-terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025/non-statutory-supplementary-document-b-scope-illustrative-examples-accessible) illustrates this directly. The racecourse has a three‑kilometre perimeter with eight official ingress points, including public footpaths with little means of controlling movement. The responsible person recognised the perimeter as a vulnerability but determined that erecting a physical perimeter around the entire premises was not reasonably practicable, given the required infrastructure investment and the small number of race days per year. Instead, monitoring was concentrated at the main entrance and stands where most of the public gather, supplemented by race-day sweeps and unpredictable patrols. These measures were determined to be reasonably practicable and appropriate.

[The statutory guidance requires duty-holders to demonstrate why decisions were made](https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/clarity-on-martyns-law-compliance). Site plans, ingress and egress analysis, and crowd-flow information can show why a specific protective measure is or is not justified at a particular location. That forms the spatial argument and becomes far stronger when built on documented, to-scale evidence.

## Emergency Procedures Derived from the Assessment

Emergency procedures under Martyn’s Law flow directly from the assessment findings. The threat and vulnerability analysis determines which scenarios the procedures must address. The proportionality reasoning shapes how those procedures are designed for the specific site.

The four statutory procedures, covering evacuation, invacuation, lockdown, and communication, must be realistic, tailored to the environment, understood by staff, and suitable for implementation under pressure. A written procedure that cannot be implemented rapidly and effectively does not satisfy the requirement. For a step-by-step guide to developing and documenting these procedures, see [Martyn’s Law Emergency Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://oneplan.io/articles/martyns-law-emergency-planning-guide/?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent).

## How Often Must a Martyn’s Law Risk Assessment Be Reviewed?

The compliance document must be reviewed at least annually and after any operational change or threat-level shift that materially affects the assessment. [Enhanced Tier premises must provide a copy of any revised compliance document to the SIA within 30 days of its revision.](https://gov.uk/government/publications/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-notification-requirement/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-notification-requirement-accessible)

Where the responsible person is an organisation or company, a senior individual must be designated under section 10 of the Act. [The SIA notification for Enhanced Tier premises must include the senior individual’s name and contact details, the date they were designated, and the position they hold.](https://gov.uk/government/publications/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-notification-requirement/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-notification-requirement-accessible) The senior individual keeps overall responsibility for compliance but can delegate actions.

If any information provided to the SIA becomes inaccurate, the responsible person must update it and notify the SIA within 28 days. This obligation applies even to information originally provided by a previous responsible person. Those review and notification duties are mandatory. Understanding what happens when they are missed, or when no assessment is produced at all, explains why the SIA’s enforcement powers matter.

## What Happens If You Fail to Complete a Martyn’s Law Risk Assessment?

[The SIA’s stated approach is to support, advise, and guide first.](https://gov.uk/government/publications/the-terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025/terrorism-protection-of-premises-act-2025-statutory-guidance) Where an inspection raises concerns, the SIA will rely on advice and guidance to secure compliance where possible. Formal enforcement powers exist for cases where advice and guidance are insufficient. The SIA can escalate through three types of notice, each with a different practical consequence for the venue:

- A compliance notice under section 13, requiring the recipient to comply with a requirement of the Act within a specified period
- A restriction notice under section 14, requiring compliance with specified restrictions on the use of the premises or the continuation of an event
- A penalty notice under sections 17, 19, and 21, requiring a specified amount to be paid to the SIA, which may include daily penalties for continued non-compliance

Maximum monetary penalties are £10,000 for Standard Tier premises and, for the Enhanced Tier, the greater of £18 million or 5% of qualifying worldwide revenue. The SIA charges no fees for notifications, inspections, or post-inspection advice.

## How To Evidence the Assessment Spatially

A good Martyn’s Law risk assessment is fundamentally a spatial document. It has to show where measures apply and why. The reasonably practicable test requires the responsible person to justify why a measure is proportionate to their specific site, and that argument becomes far stronger when built on a to-scale plan, crowd-capacity figures, and ingress or egress modelling.

![aerial shot of a coast filled with software-added event elements. On the left, there is an app menu (OnePlan)](https://cdn.aigrowthmarketer.co/1780508353774-e6397ee8616e.png)**Beach event planning example inside OnePlan: the base layer is a zoomable satellite or street map, and everything placed on it (tents, stages, crowd barriers, toilets, vehicles, staff, signage, routes) stays accurately to scale as you zoom**

[The statutory guidance supports applying different controls to different parts of a site depending on layout and movement patterns](https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/clarity-on-martyns-law-compliance), because measures must be appropriate to the specific environment. That kind of differentiated, location-specific reasoning relies on spatial evidence rather than a generic policy statement.

OnePlan’s to-scale, map-based planning turns abstract threat statements into site-specific, proportionate justifications. Place a crowd area on the map and OnePlan’s standing crowd capacity calculator instantly returns the safe capacity at a chosen density. Draw the perimeter and OnePlan returns its length to scale. Model ingress and egress using OnePlan’s free arrival and exit calculators, available at [calculators.oneplan.io/arrival](https://calculators.oneplan.io/arrival?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent) and [calculators.oneplan.io/exit/calculator](https://calculators.oneplan.io/exit/calculator?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent), to estimate queue lengths, queue times, and exit flow rates for specific entry and exit points. That output, attached to the proportionality justification section of the compliance document, shows the SIA exactly how the responsible person reasoned from site geometry to selected measure.

![Festival planning example inside OnePlan: the base layer is a zoomable satellite or street map, and everything placed on it (tents, stages, crowd barriers, toilets, vehicles, staff, signage, routes) stays accurately to scale as you zoom](https://cdn.aigrowthmarketer.co/1780620510054-c5429587ebad.png)**Festival planning example inside OnePlan: the base layer is a zoomable satellite or street map, and everything placed on it (tents, stages, crowd barriers, toilets, vehicles, staff, signage, routes) stays accurately to scale as you zoom**

Venues like [Silverstone](https://www.oneplan.io/case-studies/how-silverstone-planned-the-british-grand-prix-in-oneplan/?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent), which plans the Formula 1 British Grand Prix and more than 50 events a year, use OnePlan as their single source of truth. The plan stays up to date, collaborative, and to scale across every event. Road events like the [Tour of Britain](https://www.oneplan.io/case-studies/how-the-tour-of-britain-was-planned-in-oneplan/?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent) use it to validate infrastructure remotely across an eight‑stage, 1,352‑kilometre route. Local government teams like [Eagle Mountain City](https://www.oneplan.io/case-studies/how-eagle-mountain-city-saves-70-planning-time-and-achieves-5x-roi-organizing-community-events-using-oneplan/?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent) use it to replace the chaos of separate maps for every department. One comprehensive, to-scale plan replaces the stack of department-specific maps. For the spatial side of a Martyn’s Law risk assessment, the same approach applies. A single, to-scale plan carries the crowd and flow evidence you need. For a broader look at building the evidence base for compliance, see [Martyn’s Law: The Evidence Playbook For UK Venues And Events](https://oneplan.io/articles/martyns-law-compliance-guide/?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent).

![Workforce planning example inside OnePlan: the base layer is a zoomable satellite or street map, and everything placed on it (tents, stages, crowd barriers, toilets, vehicles, staff, signage, routes) stays accurately to scale as you zoom](https://cdn.aigrowthmarketer.co/1780620462793-34a56c1c38c8.png)**Workforce planning example inside OnePlan: the base layer is a zoomable satellite or street map, and everything placed on it (tents, stages, crowd barriers, toilets, vehicles, staff, signage, routes) stays accurately to scale as you zoom**

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Who Legally Needs a Martyn’s Law Risk Assessment?

A formal terrorism risk assessment is legally mandated only for Enhanced Tier premises and qualifying events under the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025. As noted earlier, the Enhanced Tier threshold is 800 or more individuals present at the same time. Qualifying events meet the same threshold, have controlled entry, and are not already covered as Enhanced Tier premises. Standard Tier premises have a different, proportionate set of duties that do not include a formal written risk assessment submitted to the SIA.

### What Is the Difference Between Standard and Enhanced Tier Duties?

Standard Tier premises must notify the SIA and ensure appropriate public protection procedures are in place covering evacuation, invacuation, lockdown, and communication. Those procedures must be documented and communicated to staff. Standard Tier premises are not required to submit a formal terrorism risk assessment or install specific physical security measures. Enhanced Tier premises and qualifying events must additionally implement proportionate public protection measures across monitoring, movement, physical safety and security, and information security, and maintain a documented compliance document submitted to the SIA. A senior individual must be designated, and any revised compliance document must be resubmitted to the SIA within 30 days of revision.

### What Should a Martyn’s Law Risk Assessment Template Contain?

A Martyn’s Law risk assessment template should follow a section-by-section framework covering:

- **Scope and applicability:** premises details, tier classification, responsible person, senior individual, and headcount methodology
- **Threat assessment:** terrorism threat types relevant to the site
- **Existing controls:** the baseline before new mitigations
- **Vulnerabilities:** gaps between existing controls and identified threats
- **Mitigations:** selected measures and why they were chosen
- **Proportionality justification:** why each measure is or is not implemented, referencing cost, time, difficulty, and spatial evidence
- **Emergency procedures:** evacuation, invacuation, lockdown, and communication derived from the assessment findings
- **Governance and review:** senior individual, review cycle, and SIA submission obligations

### What Does ‘Reasonably Practicable’ Mean?

As explained above, reasonably practicable means proportionate. The responsible person weighs what can be done against cost, time, and difficulty. The village hall versus city-centre arena comparison illustrates the point. Under the [UK Equality Act 2010](https://spacesplease.com/library/accessibility-duties-for-event-organisers), what counts as a reasonable adjustment depends on all the circumstances, including the organisation’s size and resources, so a measure justified for a 20,000‑capacity stadium may not be reasonable for a 900‑capacity heritage venue with a small number of event days per year. The proportionality justification section of the compliance document is where this reasoning must be made explicit and evidenced.

### How Often Must a Martyn’s Law Risk Assessment Be Reviewed?

Risk assessments should be reviewed at least annually and after any operational change or threat-level shift that materially affects the assessment. Risk assessments should outline review periods and the triggers that will drive these reviews, for example a change in the government terrorism threat level, a new event or change in function at a site, changes to the physical layout, changes to the responsible person or senior individual, or temporal reviews such as every 6 or 12 months. The review cycle and the 30‑day resubmission rule are covered above. The same section also notes the 28‑day notification duty for inaccurate information.

### What Happens If You Fail to Complete a Martyn’s Law Risk Assessment?

The SIA’s stated approach is to support, advise, and guide first. Where formal enforcement is necessary, the SIA can issue compliance notices requiring remedial action within a specified period, restriction notices limiting the use of premises or an event, and penalty notices requiring payment of a specified amount, including daily penalties for continued non-compliance. The maximum penalties and the no-fee policy are set out above. The key point is that the SIA can escalate from advice to formal notices and daily penalties.

### How Do I Evidence the Assessment Spatially?

Use a to-scale site plan with crowd-capacity figures and ingress or egress modelling to show why a specific protective measure is or is not justified at a particular location. The statutory guidance requires duty-holders to demonstrate why decisions were made, and that reasoning becomes far stronger when it is grounded in documented spatial evidence. OnePlan’s to-scale, map-based planning and free arrival and exit calculators turn abstract threat statements into site-specific, proportionate justifications that can be attached directly to the compliance document.

### How Do Planning Needs Vary by Venue Type?

Different venue types face different spatial and operational challenges. The assessment must reflect the specific threat and vulnerability profile of the premises or event, and measures must be appropriate to the environment and resources. A racecourse with a three‑kilometre perimeter faces different spatial challenges than an indoor arena with two controlled entry points. The racecourse is typically divided into separately ticketed enclosures with multiple entry points. Under Martyn’s Law, a heritage venue with 900‑person capacity that hosts only a handful of event days per year and a stadium hosting 800‑plus people weekly both fall into the Enhanced Tier. The 800‑or‑more threshold is assessed on the number of individuals reasonably expected to be present at the same time “from time to time,” not an average, so both must apply the same Enhanced Tier mitigations. The compliance document must show that the responsible person has reasoned from their specific site rather than applying a generic template without adaptation.

## Conclusion: Build the Spatial Evidence That Makes Your Assessment Defensible

A Martyn’s Law risk assessment is a spatial argument. It has to justify every decision by reference to the specific site, including its geometry, crowd patterns, ingress and egress points, and operational realities. Generic statements do not satisfy that test. Documented, to-scale spatial evidence does.

OnePlan is a focused tool for building and evidencing that spatial side of the assessment. To-scale, map-based planning, a standing crowd capacity calculator, and free arrival and exit calculators at [calculators.oneplan.io/arrival](https://calculators.oneplan.io/arrival?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent) and [calculators.oneplan.io/exit/calculator](https://calculators.oneplan.io/exit/calculator?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent) turn the abstract into the specific. That specific, spatial evidence is exactly what the SIA needs to see.

[See how OnePlan turns your site plan into compliance evidence](https://www.oneplan.io/book-demo/?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent)

## Read Next

- [Martyn’s Law Emergency Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://oneplan.io/articles/martyns-law-emergency-planning-guide/?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent)
- [Martyn’s Law for Event Planners: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://oneplan.io/articles/martyns-law-event-planning/?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent)
- [Martyn’s Law: The Evidence Playbook for UK Venues and Events](https://oneplan.io/articles/martyns-law-compliance-guide/?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent)
- [Martyn’s Law Requirements for Venues: A Complete 2026 Guide](https://oneplan.io/articles/martyns-law-requirements-for-venues/?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent)
- [How to Comply With Martyn’s Law: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://oneplan.io/articles/martyns-law-venue-security/?utm_term=martyns-law-risk-assessment&utm_campaign=ai_growth_agent)

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