Is my home licensed?
The licensing schemes for your postcode and, where we can, whether your address is on the council's register. Nothing you enter is stored.
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Large shared houses (5 or more people from 2 or more households) need a licence, and some areas license other privately rented homes too; there are some exceptions. Enter a postcode to see which licensing schemes cover the council and, where the council publishes its register, whether a licence for your address is on it.
PR3 2ZA is in Ribble Valley (Alston & Hothersall ward)
The council's register
Can't check this register here
We don't have Ribble Valley's register. Many councils publish a search page or a list; the council's private housing team can confirm whether an address is licensed. Find the council's website on GOV.UK, and ask whether the address has a licence or a licence application, and its dates (there is a letter for that).
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
Large shared houses (5 or more people from 2 or more households) need a licence everywhere in England; there are some exceptions.
We haven't yet recorded Ribble Valley'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 Ribble Valley
None of the additional or selective schemes we hold for Ribble Valley 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.
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Which councils we can check (22)
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
- Epsom and Ewell: shared houses (HMOs) only; copy of 28 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?