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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.

ME1 1XP is in Medway (Rochester West & Borstal ward)

The council's register

Can't check this register here

We don't have Medway's register. Many councils publish a search page or a list; the council's private housing team can confirm whether an address is licensed.

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.

We haven't yet recorded Medway's licensing schemes. The council's private housing team can say which apply; most councils have a property licensing page.

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 Medway

None of the additional or selective schemes we hold for Medway ends in the next six months.

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.

Next

Rent repayment order calculator The most the tribunal could order from your rent and dates, and what tribunals ordered for the same offence. Rent repayment orders near ME1 1XP 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 ME1 1XP What the rent tribunal decided on rent increases near ME1 1XP. Email alerts Email me when a new decision is published near ME1 1XP. 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.