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Hammersmith & Fulham operates discretionary property licensing. Letting an unlicensed property where a scheme applies risks a civil penalty of up to £30,000 and a rent repayment order — check whether your property is covered below.
Required for any HMO let to 5 or more people forming 2+ households who share facilities.
Fee: 1627.00
Hammersmith & Fulham operates a Selective Licensing Scheme covering 24 named streets, running from 5 June 2022 until 4 June 2027 (five-year designation renewed alongside the additional HMO scheme on 6 December 2021). The scheme replaced the previous 2017 scheme, which had originally covered 128 streets — the renewal substantially reduced street coverage to focus on busy roads, flats above shops, and roads with a significant private rented sector concentration, using a "Simplex Method" predictive model that analysed antisocial behaviour data alongside PRS density to keep the designation under the 20% threshold that would otherwise require Secretary of State approval. A selective licence is required for any house or flat let to a single household or to two unrelated sharers (i.e. lettings that fall outside both mandatory HMO and additional HMO licensing) where the property is on one of the 24 designated streets. The 24 streets are: Askew Road, Baron's Court Road, Bloemfontein Road, Blythe Road, Coningham Road, Crookham Road, Dalling Road, Dawes Road, Fulham Road, Goldhawk Road, Greyhound Road, King Street, Lime Grove, New King's Road, North End Road, Richmond Way, Scrubs Lane, Shepherd's Bush Road, Sinclair Road, Talgarth Road, Uxbridge Road, Wandsworth Bridge Road, Wood Lane, and Woodstock Grove. Eight of these streets (Baron's Court Road, Blythe Road, Coningham Road, Crookham Road, Greyhound Road, Richmond Way, Sinclair Road, Wandsworth Bridge Road) were newly added in 2022 and were not in the previous designation. Some properties are exempt, including Local Housing Authority and Registered Social Landlord tenancies, family-member rentals, owner-occupiers letting up to two lodgers, and HMOs that are licensable under Part 2 of the Housing Act 2004. The selective licence application fee is £742 per property (correct as of January 2026), with the same £80 accredited-landlord or £50 Landlord Rental Charter discount as the additional scheme, and the same 50/50 Part 1/Part 2 split. The council estimates around 6,000 properties fall within scope. Operating an unlicensed selective property exposes the landlord to unlimited fines on prosecution, civil penalties up to £30,000, Rent Repayment Orders of up to 12 months rent, and entry on the Rogue Landlord Checker.
Areas: Askew Road, Baron's Court Road, Bloemfontein Road, Blythe Road, Coningham Road, Crookham Road, Dalling Road, Dawes Road, Fulham Road, Goldhawk Road, Greyhound Road, King Street, Lime Grove, New King's Road, North End Road, Richmond Way, Scrubs Lane, Shepherd's Bush Road, Sinclair Road, Talgarth Road, Uxbridge Road, Wandsworth Bridge Road, Wood Lane, Woodstock Grove (24 designated streets)
Fee: 742.00
Scheme runs until: 4 June 2027
Hammersmith & Fulham operates a borough-wide Additional HMO Licensing Scheme that runs from 5 June 2022 until 4 June 2027 (a five-year designation renewed by Cabinet on 6 December 2021). The scheme covers all Houses in Multiple Occupation that fall outside the mandatory HMO licensing regime — that is, properties occupied by three or four people forming two or more households who share kitchen, bathroom or toilet facilities, including shared houses, shared flats and bedsit-style accommodation. The scheme also explicitly includes a sub-set of section 257 HMOs (buildings converted into self-contained flats where the conversion did not comply with the Building Regulations in force at the time and where less than two-thirds of the flats are owner-occupied), but only where none of the flats are owner-occupied, the building is not owned/managed collectively by the leaseholders, and the property is not in a designated selective licensing street. The application fee for an Additional HMO Licence is £742 per property (correct as of January 2026 per London Property Licensing; previously cited as £597.50 in 2024 sources). An £80 discount is available to landlords accredited via the National Residential Landlords Association or the London Landlord Accreditation Scheme; alternatively a £50 discount is available to landlords who sign up to the council's Landlord Rental Charter. Only one discount may be claimed per licence. The fee is split 50/50 across Part 1 (payable on application, non-refundable) and Part 2 (payable on issue of the draft licence). Mandatory HMO licences (5+ occupants in 2+ households) are charged separately at £1,627 for a five-bedroom HMO plus £170 for each additional bedroom, with a 25/75 Part 1/Part 2 split. Operating without the correct licence exposes landlords to prosecution with an unlimited fine, civil penalties up to £30,000 per offence without warning, Rent Repayment Orders of up to 12 months rent, and entry on the Mayor of London Rogue Landlord and Agent Checker. The council's most recent estimates put around 717 properties in scope of mandatory HMO licensing, around 5,859 in scope of additional licensing, and around 6,000 in scope of selective licensing across the borough.
Areas: Borough-wide
Fee: 742.00
Scheme runs until: 4 June 2027
Source: Hammersmith & Fulham licensing page →
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