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.
UB6 8SZ is in Ealing (Perivale ward)
The council's register
Can't check this register here
Ealing publishes its register as a search page rather than a file we can read, so we can't check an address here. Search Ealing'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.
Additional HMO licensing In force
Covers the whole of Ealing, 1 Apr 2022 to 31 Mar 2027. Smaller HMOs (for example 3 or 4 sharers) need a licence here too.
Borough-wide; renewal consulted on in 2026.
Selective licensing In force
Covers this postcode (part of Ealing), 3 Jan 2023 to 2 Jan 2028. Every privately rented home in the area needs a licence, shared or not.
Two designations (2022-27 and 2023-28).
Scheme details were checked on 17 Oct 2026 from the council's own pages; whether a scheme covering only part of the borough covers this postcode comes from the Greater London Authority's licence-area map, the data behind the Mayor of London's checker. Schemes start, end and get renewed; the council's page is the current word.
Ending soon in Ealing
Additional HMO licensing across the whole of Ealing ends on 31 Mar 2027. Borough-wide; renewal consulted on in 2026.
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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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?