This form lets you apply to your council to conduct to personal training fitness activities on council-owned land.
Once you've notified the council, you can conduct outdoor fitness activities in the specified parks in line with the Automatic Approvals Program conditions.
Before you proceed
Please familiarise yourself with the conditions for use of public parks and council-owned land for purposes of outdoor fitness, exercise and training. This information can be found on your local council website. We recommend that you check what other approvals you might need via the VicGov website.
How we use your info
We will pass your info to your council so they can process your outdoor fitness notification. We won't use your info for any other purpose unless permitted by law. Learn more about how we use your info.
This form lets you apply to your council to conduct to personal training fitness activities on council-owned land.
Once you've notified the council, you can conduct outdoor fitness activities in the specified parks in line with the Automatic Approvals Program conditions.
Before you proceed
Please familiarise yourself with the conditions for use of public parks and council-owned land for purposes of outdoor fitness, exercise and training. This information can be found on your local council website. We recommend that you check what other approvals you might need via the VicGov website.
How we use your info
We will pass your info to your council so they can process your outdoor fitness notification. We won't use your info for any other purpose unless permitted by law. Learn more about how we use your info.
In order to complete your notification, you'll need:
- to be a registered fitness trainer. If you aren't yet registered, you can do so via the AusActive or Physical Activity Australia websites
- public liability insurance - certificate of currency ($20 million coverage per occurrence)
- professional indemnity - certificate of currency
This program will run for up to 12 months and will offer a streamlined process for businesses to undertake low risk activities such as footpath trading, placement of skip bins, and personal training in council parks and reserves. The results will be used to evaluate whether the program should be rolled out more broadly.
At the end of the program, the participating councils will decide whether to continue with the streamlined process or revert to the existing permit system. You will be notified about what council has decided and how this affects you prior to the conclusion of the 12 month period.
That's it! As long as you have obtained any other approvals you might need (see below), you're now able to train outdoors. The council will contact you if they require more information.
The key change is the required level of public liability insurance is now $20 million per occurrence. This has been set based on advice from MAV Insurance.
No - participation in the program is free.
We collect info your nominated local council needs to process your outdoor fitness automatic approval. You can't submit an outdoor fitness application through Service Victoria without giving this info.
We'll share this info with your local council, who will handle your info under their privacy policy. To contact your local council or access your info, please select the relevant link below:
If you want to change any details you need to submit a new notification and notify your council to cancel the previous notification.
Please email your council to cancel.
You will need to submit a notification for each location you want to use.
