🎲 Trafalgar Leisure Limited

This is a land‑based gambling operator in Great Britain, active under an operating licence issued by the Gambling Commission. It focuses on adult gaming and betting activities in physical premises rather than online gambling. The company was incorporated on 22 July 1993 and has operated in the UK gambling sector for several decades.

The company is registered at Companies House under number 03705826. Public filings indicate that it is a privately held entity and does not form part of a publicly disclosed wider gambling group. As of recent filings, David John Trollope is recorded as a director. There is no publicly reported information indicating recent major changes in ownership or corporate control.

The business has traded using the brand name “The Player” for its adult gaming centres. It has operated multiple premises under this brand, including sites in the North East of England such as Sunderland, according to local licensing and tribunal documentation. Its venues have been described in legal and regulatory materials as mixed‑use premises that include gambling facilities alongside other activities.

Licensing and Operations

This operator holds an active Great Britain Gambling Commission operating licence. The licence permits non‑remote gambling activities in land‑based venues. Publicly available tribunal and regulatory documents indicate that its premises have offered:

• Adult gaming centre facilities
• Betting facilities via remote betting terminals
• Category B2 gaming machines (commonly high‑stakes, fixed‑odds style machines)
• Additional lower‑stake gaming machines in line with adult gaming centre permissions

In evidence cited in tribunal proceedings, individual premises were described as typically containing five remote betting terminals and four category B2 gaming machines, alongside other gaming machines. The Gambling Commission’s public register confirms that the company’s operating licence remains active, authorising it to continue offering non‑remote gambling services in Great Britain subject to regulatory requirements.

There is no evidence in the public register that the company holds a remote (online) operating licence for casino, betting, bingo or other remote gambling activities. Its business model, as reflected in legal and regulatory sources, is centred on land‑based adult gaming centres and associated betting facilities rather than online gambling.

Regulatory History

The company has been involved in at least one reported tribunal case concerning the classification and regulatory treatment of its premises. In that case, a local authority had taken the position that one of the operator’s venues was primarily a gambling premises. The operator argued that the premises were not primarily used for gambling activity within the meaning of the relevant legislation and licensing framework.

The matter was considered by a tribunal, which found in favour of the operator. The tribunal accepted that the premises, as operated at the time, did not fall to be classified as primarily for gambling activity in the way argued by the local authority. This outcome allowed the venue to continue trading under its existing permissions. The case has been cited in legal and licensing commentary as an example of how “primary gambling activity” tests can be applied to mixed‑use premises.

As of the latest available information, there are no publicly reported fines, regulatory settlements or formal sanctions imposed on this operator by the Gambling Commission. The operating licence remains recorded as active on the Commission’s public register.