Licence and other service fees
Calculate your licence fee
Before submitting your application, please calculate your house in multiple occupation (HMO) fee using the licence fee table:
The Council offers chargeable services, such as a charge for carrying out an inspection of a proposed home to support a person immigration application to the UK. Services and charges can be withdrawn (temporarily or permanently) or other chargeable services introduced.
Other fees and HMO services
Note: all charges quoted are on 1 April 2025
Advisory visits and inspections
We offer advisory visits to properties for prospective HMO use. An HMO advisory visit includes:
- an initial site visit and inspection of the property
- consultation with the London Fire Brigade
- two site visits to ensure that works comply with the Housing Act and our standards
We also take requests for an:
- immigration inspection under the housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS), which includes a report and letter to the relevant authorities
- inspection of premises in or out of the borough, under the Housing Act or other statute, and to provide a report or letter for legal, financial enquiries or for HMO licensing confirmation status.
- immigration inspection: Based on actual travel costs
- inspection of premises: Based on actual travel costs
Document requests
- drawing floor plans for a three-storey HMO, £290 to a maximum of £558, each additional storey is £53
- request for replacement copies of documents, including letters, notices and licences, £74
- Copy of report £219
Charges for Statutory Notices Housing Act 2004
- for improvement notices, emergency remedial action notice, prohibition order, emergency prohibition order or a demolition order - £657. for a property up to 10 rooms - individual assessments will be carried out on larger properties.; the costs of reports, analysis, etc needed prior to enforcement will always be added to the costs
- suspended improvement notice, suspended prohibition order, or serving copies of the authority’s decision on such a review, £657.
- Works in default - Hourly officer rate will be applied for undertaking works in default and as defined within the applicable legislation. An additional 17% management charge
Failure to comply with an enforcement action
- works in default, for works undertaken by the council for failure to comply with an enforcement notice, 17% management charge
Prosecution and Civil penalties: Housing Act 2004; Housing and Planning Act 2016 - Penalties relating to failure to apply for a licence
£250-£30,000 in line with the Civil Penalty Calculation Matrix based on Severity of offence; Deterrence and prevention; Harm to tenants; Size of business; and History of offending.
Other HMO licensing fees or information
- change of licence holder - new licensing application will be required
- renewal of licence following expiry of reduced term (five years), subject to a new application fee
- revocation notice, no charge
- sale of licensed HMO, HMO licensing fee not refundable
- Temporary Exemption Notice, no charge
- Variation Notice, no charge unless additional rooms or units are occupied - HMO licensing fee would apply