Holiday Let and Guest House Safety Compliance Checklist

An annual compliance checklist covering gas safety, electrical installation and appliances, smoke and CO alarms, furniture fire safety, hot tubs and Legionella, private water supplies, wood burners, cots and children’s equipment, pools and ponds, insurance and key records.

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Guidance notes included
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Holiday lets, B&Bs & guest houses

Holiday Let and Guest House Safety Compliance Checklist

About this document

What it’s for

Holiday accommodation is a business, and owners owe guests a duty of care. Several safety rules apply specifically, and insurers and booking platforms increasingly ask for evidence of checks. This checklist pulls together the main requirements so you can check, record and diarise them in one place.

When to use it

  • Before you start letting
  • At the start of each season and annually
  • When adding facilities such as a hot tub, wood burner or games room

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

A complete, ready-to-use document with every section written, your details shown in [square brackets], and guidance notes explaining how to complete it.

How to complete it

  • Work through each section and record the date and evidence
  • Diarise renewal dates
  • Keep certificates together (digital copies are fine)

Key points to check

  • Some requirements differ in Scotland and Wales, which have licensing or registration schemes
  • Use registered and competent contractors (for example Gas Safe engineers)

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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