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Licensing in Bromsgrove

Bromsgrove has no selective or additional licensing scheme in force.

Researched 14 October 2026 · Independently checked 14 October 2026

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  • National rules only30

Current ONS ward boundaries. Exemptions apply. Use the postcode check and scheme details for your property.

Selective licensing
None
Additional HMO licensing
No
Article 4 on house shares
Not yet confirmed
Consultation
None open

Licensing schemes

  • Mandatory HMO licence

    In forceMedium confidence

    Mandatory HMO licensing (Housing Act 2004 Part 2)

    Area

    National scheme, applies across the whole of Bromsgrove district.

    Fee

    Not yet confirmed

    £156.80 per person (occupant), so a 5-person HMO would be £784. Paid online via the council's payment page (Licensing > HMOs). No Part A / Part B split is published, and the page carries no update date.

    Who needs one
    HMOs occupied by at least 5 people forming 2 or more households who share at least one basic amenity such as a bathroom or kitchen.
    Notes
    Included because the council publishes its own fee. The licence is 'usually issued for a period of up to 5 years'. Applications use a joint Bromsgrove/Redditch paper form (the file is named as a variation form, but its heading is 'Application for HMO Licence'), submitted by post or email. HMOs must meet the joint Redditch and Bromsgrove amenity standards (2020). The council's HMO page still tells tenants that rent repayment orders are capped at 12 months, which predates the Renters' Rights Act. No selective or additional licensing scheme is referred to on the council's landlord pages.
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    Sources

Article 4 for house shares

Not yet confirmed

Whether Bromsgrove has an Article 4 direction on house shares.

Civil penalty policy

The council's policy sets how it decides the size of a fine. The version we found has been updated for the Renters' Rights Act.

The Private Sector Housing Enforcement and Civil Penalty Policy was rewritten for the Renters' Rights Act 2025 and based on the ACEHO model. Cabinet approved it on 17 June 2026 (minute 9/26, 'RESOLVED that Members approve'); delegations went to Council on 15 July 2026. The matrix uses MHCLG statutory-guidance starting points with £7,000 and £40,000 maximums; the policy's worked example gives £17,000 as the starting point for failure to obtain an HMO licence. The Landlord Type adjustment is +/-20% of the starting point, and aggravating and mitigating factors are each capped at 20%. There is a 15% prompt-payment discount if the penalty is paid in full within the final-notice period (normally 28 days), and the discount still applies if the landlord appeals. The policy was found only as a committee appendix, not on the council's main website.

Bromsgrove's civil penalty policy

Consultations

No consultation was recorded when we researched Bromsgrove.

Not yet confirmed

These points were unresolved when we researched Bromsgrove on 14 October 2026. Check them with the council before you rely on them.

  • Not yet confirmed

    Article 4 (C3 to C4) direction for small HMOs: not confirmed either way. planning.data.gov.uk lists no Article 4 directions for Bromsgrove, but that dataset omits directions for other councils (e.g. Dudley and East Staffordshire), and no Bromsgrove planning page listing Article 4 directions was found.

  • Not yet confirmed

    The HMO fee page (£156.80 per person) is undated and gives no Part A / Part B split; confirm the current figure with the Private Sector Housing team.

  • Not yet confirmed

    The approved June 2026 civil penalty policy was found only as a Cabinet appendix on moderngov; confirm the version published to landlords.

  • Not yet confirmed

    No selective or additional licensing scheme, or consultation on one, was found for Bromsgrove.

  • Not yet confirmed

    Not independently re-checked (verification of 2026-10-14): the absence of an Article 4 direction (planning.data.gov.uk and the council sitemap only; no web search was possible), and the absence of a selective or additional scheme (HMO page and sitemap only; no tracker cross-check was possible).

Landlord register

Licensing is separate from the national landlord register. Bromsgrove is in West Midlands, where the planned registration window runs from 15 December 2026 to 14 March 2027. The regulations are still in draft. Register dates, fee and documents