Rent Rise Check

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.

L15 8JP is in Liverpool (Church ward)

The council's register

Can't check this register here

Liverpool publishes its register as a search page rather than a file we can read, so we can't check an address here. Search Liverpool's register by postcode.

This is public data about schemes and registers, not a finding about any home. Whether a licence was needed, and whether one was held, is for the council and, in a dispute, the tribunal.

Licensing schemes

Mandatory HMO licensing In force everywhere

Applies everywhere in England: a house or flat shared by 5 or more people from 2 or more households needs a licence.

Selective licensing In force

Covers part of Liverpool (designated wards (about 80% of rented homes)): check the council's map for your street, 1 Apr 2022 to 31 Mar 2027. Every privately rented home in the area needs a licence, shared or not.

A successor scheme was consulted on to 5 Oct 2026, no decision published.

Scheme details were checked on 17 Oct 2026 from the council's own pages. Schemes start, end and get renewed; the council's page is the current word.

Ending soon in Liverpool

Selective licensing in part of Liverpool ends on 31 Mar 2027. A successor scheme was consulted on to 5 Oct 2026, no decision published.

A scheme can be renewed and a licence renewed before it runs out; the council's page and register say what has happened since. Counts only: the addresses are on the council's register.

Bookmark or share: this page's address rebuilds it from what is in the address itself; nothing is stored on the site.

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Rent repayment order pack This licence check, the most the tribunal could order from your rent and dates, the most comparable orders near you with the tribunal's reasoning, the time limit and form RRO1, as one PDF. Ask the landlord for the licence number A short letter asking whether the home holds a licence, and for its number and dates. A template, not advice. Ask Liverpool what its register shows A letter to the council's private sector housing team asking whether a licence or application exists for the address. Rent repayment order calculator Just the arithmetic: the most the tribunal could order from your rent and dates, and what tribunals ordered for the same offence. Rent repayment orders near L15 8JP What the tribunal ordered landlords of unlicensed homes to repay: tenants of homes let without a required licence can apply for a rent repayment order. Rent decisions near L15 8JP What the rent tribunal decided on rent increases near L15 8JP. Email alerts Email me when a new decision is published near L15 8JP. Shelter on HMO licensing Shelter's guide to licensing for tenants. GOV.UK on rent repayment orders The official guidance, the form and the fees.
Which councils we can check (21)

Register lookups work for councils that publish their register as a file:

  • Barnet: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Bexley: shared houses (HMOs) and selective licences; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Birmingham: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Brighton and Hove: shared houses (HMOs) and selective licences; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Camden: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Hillingdon: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Hounslow: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Kensington and Chelsea: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Kingston upon Thames: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Lambeth: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Leicester: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Lewisham: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Manchester: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Nottingham: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Portsmouth: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Sheffield: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Sutton: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Tower Hamlets: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Waltham Forest: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Warwick: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026
  • Woking: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 17 Oct 2026

The copy date is when we last downloaded the council's file; a few files are a council's reply to an earlier Freedom of Information request, so they are as old as that reply. 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.

The three kinds of licensing, how to check, and what "not on the register" does and doesn't mean: our guide, does my rented home need a licence?