HMO Licensing Check for London Landlords | Panayi Group

Check HMO licensing

Tell us how your property is occupied and we will tell you which licences it is likely to need.

Licensing turns on details that are easy to get wrong: how many households share a kitchen, which borough you are in, whether a room is big enough to sleep in. Answer what you can below and leave anything you are unsure of to us. Nothing is sent from this page either; you read the finished message and correct it in your own email before it goes anywhere.

  • Mandatory, additional and selective
  • An indication, then a site visit
  • Applications handled end to end

The property

Where it is and what it is. The borough matters more than anything else here, because additional and selective schemes are set locally, so two identical houses a street apart can need different licences.

What do you own?
own

Who lives there

This is the part that decides whether it is an HMO at all. A household is one person, or members of the same family living together. Four friends sharing is four households, whilst a couple with children is one.

Are any units fully self-contained?Own kitchen and bathroom, behind its own front door.
selfc
Who are the occupants?
occ
Tenancy arrangement
ten

Rooms and amenities

Room sizes and the ratio of bathrooms to occupants are conditions of the licence itself, not just the application. Estimates are fine at this stage, because these get measured properly on the visit.

Where you already stand

What is in place now, so we can tell you whether this is a first application, a renewal, or a problem that needs sorting before either.

Is it licensed now?
lic
Any notice or enforcement from the council?
enf
Planning permission or Article 4 in place?Article 4 removes permitted development rights for HMO use in some boroughs.
a4
Certificates you hold
certs

About you

A name and one way to reach you. If the licence holder would be someone other than you, put that in the last box, as the council names a specific person.

Your role
role

Read it before it sends

This is the whole message, addressed to Peter. Edit it here if you like, then open it in your email app for a final look before you press send.

Pressing submit opens a new email in your own mail app, already addressed to us and filled in with your answers. Nothing leaves this page until you press send there, so you can read it over and change anything first.

Submit

Fill in the marked fields and this will fill itself in.

No email app on this device? copy the message instead and paste it into whatever you use.

What comes back is an indication, not a decision. Licensing depends on measurements and conditions that have to be seen, so we confirm it on a site visit before anything is submitted to the council.