EVIDENCE BEFORE ASSURANCE
National mandatory HMO rules and published local scheme records. Each record has an official source and review date. The local inventory remains partial.
A partial-area scheme needs the council’s exact address checker or designation map. Unsupported councils, unresolved boundaries and exceptional properties stay uncertain.
Approximate guide locations only. Use the table for the reviewed records and the council’s official map for an individual property boundary.
Scheme types are taken from published local records. This summary does not claim that every local duty or property type has been reviewed. Dates retain the oldest evidence used by each overview.
| Council guide | Published local types | Coverage limits | Reviewed | Council source |
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| Hackney →London | Current 17-ward selective notice and borough-wide additional HMO notice reviewed. Selective address matching and non-standard buildings remain manual. | Council guidance | ||
| Harrow →London | Six current selective designations reviewed. Partial boundaries and the status of additional HMO licensing require council confirmation. | Council guidance | ||
| Lambeth →London | Additional HMO designation and both selective licensing phases reviewed. Selective boundaries still need exact-address confirmation. | Council guidance | ||
| Leeds →West Yorkshire | East, South and West Leeds selective scheme reviewed from current council guidance. Only parts of six wards are included; map matching and the linked legal notice need further verification. | Council guidance | ||
| Leicester →Leicestershire | Current selective notice and its three mapped clusters reviewed. Exact address and numbered street-range confirmation remains manual. | Council guidance | ||
| Liverpool →Merseyside | Current selective scheme reviewed using council guidance, its circulated confirmation notice and a GOV.UK date corroboration. Exact address coverage remains manual; future renewal is not assumed. | Council guidance | ||
| Nottingham →Nottinghamshire | Current selective designation reviewed. Exact boundaries and other local HMO licensing schemes need council confirmation. | Council guidance | ||
| Reading →Berkshire | Additional HMO rules reviewed. This is not a complete inventory of all licensing and planning duties. | Council guidance | ||
| Sandwell →West Midlands | Additional HMO rules reviewed. This is not a complete inventory of all licensing and planning duties. | Council guidance | ||
| Wandsworth →London | Both current selective designations and the borough-wide additional HMO notice reviewed. Selective address boundaries and converted buildings require council review. | Council guidance | ||
| Westminster →London | Both selective designations and the current borough-wide additional HMO renewal reviewed. Selective boundaries and non-standard buildings need council confirmation. | Council guidance |
The national mandatory HMO rule is separate from these local designations. Additional or selective records do not clear unreviewed property types, exemptions, planning duties or address boundaries.
Search and filter council guides →Follow each official source for the designation or rule behind the checker. A record’s effective period, review date and revision serve different purposes.
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Selective licensing boundaries, flats and converted buildings, exemptions, resident landlords, planning permission and Article 4 restrictions, licence registers and whether a licence is already held. Unsupported councils have a local-data gap.
The current checker handles ordinary rented houses. A source can describe buildings or exceptions beyond that scope without the checker establishing their individual licensing position.
Source refreshes retain the last reviewed record and create a candidate for human review. A reviewer must verify the designation and dates before publishing a new version. Only published revisions generate property alerts. A successful fetch is not a legal review.
The checker routes evidence older than 90 days to manual review. Known scheme end dates remain effective even when a page is fetched again. An expired scheme is never renewed by assumption.
An individual property licence’s expiry remains separate from the designation’s end date. Confirm both when deciding what to renew or apply for.