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.

TS26 9PW is in Hartlepool (Burn Valley ward)

The council's register

Can't check this register here

We don't have Hartlepool'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 Hartlepool'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 Hartlepool

None of the additional or selective schemes we hold for Hartlepool 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.

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

Next

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 Hartlepool 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 TS26 9PW 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 TS26 9PW What the rent tribunal decided on rent increases near TS26 9PW. 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?