Council licensing database

Does your council require a property licence?

We track selective, additional and mandatory HMO licensing for 318 councils across England & Wales — each one checked by hand. Pick your council to see the current position.

Adur Amber Valley Anglesey Arun Ashfield Ashford Babergh Barking & Dagenham Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Bexley Birmingham Blaby Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Blaenau Gwent Bolsover Bolton Boston Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Bracknell Forest Bradford Braintree Breckland Brent Brentwood Bridgend Brighton and Hove Bristol Broadland Bromley Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Caerphilly Calderdale Cambridge Camden Cannock Chase Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Castle Point Central Bedfordshire Ceredigion Charnwood Chelmsford Cheltenham Cherwell Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London City of Westminster Colchester Conwy Cornwall Cotswold County Durham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumberland Dacorum Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Dales Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Ealing East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Riding of Yorkshire East Staffordshire East Suffolk Eastbourne Eastleigh Elmbridge Enfield Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fareham Fenland Flintshire Folkestone and Hythe Forest of Dean Fylde Gateshead Gedling Gloucester Gosport Gravesham Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Gwynedd Hackney Halton Hammersmith & Fulham Harborough Haringey Harlow Harrow Hart Hartlepool Hastings Havant Havering Herefordshire Hertsmere High Peak Hillingdon Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Hounslow Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Isle of Wight Islington Kensington & Chelsea King's Lynn and West Norfolk Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Thames Kirklees Knowsley Lambeth Lancaster Leeds Leicester Lewes Lewisham Lichfield Lincoln Liverpool Luton Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Manchester Mansfield Medway Melton Merthyr Tydfil Merton Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Mole Valley Monmouthshire Neath Port Talbot New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle-under-Lyme Newham Newport North Devon North East Derbyshire North East Lincolnshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Lincolnshire North Norfolk North Northamptonshire North Somerset North Tyneside North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire North Yorkshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oldham Oxford Pembrokeshire Pendle Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Powys Preston Reading Redbridge Redcar and Cleveland Redditch Reigate and Banstead Rhondda Cynon Taf Ribble Valley Richmond upon Thames Rochdale Rochford Rossendale Rother Rotherham Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Rutland Salford Sandwell Sefton Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Gloucestershire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Norfolk South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Staffordshire South Tyneside Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Spelthorne St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Sunderland Surrey Heath Sutton Swale Swansea Swindon Tameside Tamworth Tandridge Teignbridge Telford and Wrekin Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Thurrock Tonbridge and Malling Torbay Torfaen Torridge Tower Hamlets Trafford Tunbridge Wells Uttlesford Vale of Glamorgan Vale of White Horse Wakefield Walsall Waltham Forest Wandsworth Warrington Warwick Watford Waveney (East Suffolk)Waverley Wealden Welwyn Hatfield West Berkshire West Devon West Lancashire West Lindsey West Northamptonshire West Oxfordshire West Suffolk Westmorland and Furness Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor and Maidenhead Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worthing Wrexham Wychavon Wyre Wyre Forest York

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