Is my home licensed?
Most shared houses (HMOs) need a licence, and in many areas every privately rented home does. Enter your postcode to see which licensing schemes cover your council and, where the council publishes its register as a file we can read, whether a licence for your address is on it. Nothing you enter is stored.
Which councils we can check
Register lookups work for councils that publish their register as a file: Barnet (licences for shared houses (HMOs); copy of 17 Oct 2026); Bexley (licences for shared houses (HMOs), selective licences (every rented home in the designated area); copy of 17 Oct 2026); Camden (licences for shared houses (HMOs), additional licences for smaller shared houses; copy of 17 Oct 2026); Hillingdon (licences for shared houses (HMOs); copy of 17 Oct 2026); Hounslow (licences for shared houses (HMOs); copy of 17 Oct 2026); Kensington and Chelsea (licences for shared houses (HMOs), additional licences for smaller shared houses; copy of 17 Oct 2026); Kingston upon Thames (licences for shared houses (HMOs); copy of 17 Oct 2026); Lambeth (licences for shared houses (HMOs), additional licences for smaller shared houses; copy of 17 Oct 2026); Leicester (licences for shared houses (HMOs); copy of 17 Oct 2026); Lewisham (licences for shared houses (HMOs), additional licences for smaller shared houses; copy of 17 Oct 2026); Nottingham (licences for shared houses (HMOs), additional licences for smaller shared houses; copy of 17 Oct 2026); Sheffield (licences for shared houses (HMOs); copy of 17 Oct 2026); Sutton (licences for shared houses (HMOs); copy of 17 Oct 2026); Tower Hamlets (licences for shared houses (HMOs), additional licences for smaller shared houses; copy of 17 Oct 2026); Waltham Forest (licences for shared houses (HMOs), additional licences for smaller shared houses; copy of 17 Oct 2026). For other councils the page shows the schemes and links to the council's own register search where there is one. How this works and its limits.