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Licensing in Harborough

Harborough has no selective or additional licensing scheme in force.

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  • National rules only19

Current ward boundaries from ONS. Some homes are exempt, so check your postcode and the scheme details below.

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 (national scheme, Harborough)

    Area

    Whole of Harborough District (national scheme).

    Fee

    Not yet confirmed

    The council's HMO landing page links only to the GOV.UK application and a public register; its HMO information pages ('/multiple-occupation' and the /info/20009/licences/135 pages) now return 'Sorry, this page is no longer available'. No fee found.

    Who needs one
    HMOs occupied by five or more people forming two or more households sharing facilities (national mandatory test).
    Apply on the council’s website
    How we checked this

    Included because the council publishes its own HMO page linking the application route; fee and licence term unconfirmed.

    Sources

Article 4 for house shares

Not yet confirmed

Whether Harborough 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 not been updated for the Renters' Rights Act.

'Housing Enforcement Civil Penalties Policy', supplementary to the Private Sector Housing Enforcement Policy, linked from the council's Housing Enforcement Policies page. It is framed on the Housing and Planning Act 2016 and states 'The maximum fine that can be imposed is £30,000 per offence'; no Renters' Rights Act 2025 maxima found. Adoption date not extracted.

Harborough's civil penalty policy

Consultations

We found no consultations when we researched Harborough.

Not yet confirmed

We could not settle these points when we researched Harborough. Check them with the council before you rely on them.

  • Not yet confirmed

    No selective or additional licensing scheme found. Checked: the council's housing, HMO and environmental health landing pages and the housing enforcement policies page. Committee papers not searched.

  • Not yet confirmed

    Obtain the current mandatory HMO licence fee and term; the council's detailed HMO pages have been removed.

  • Not yet confirmed

    Confirm whether the civil penalties policy has been updated for the Renters' Rights Act 2025.

  • Not yet confirmed

    Article 4: whether Harborough has an HMO (C3 to C4) Article 4 direction is not confirmed. Checked: a crawl of the council's housing, environmental health and planning pages and planning.data.gov.uk (no Article 4 records for the council). None was found, but absence is inferred, not stated by the council; confirm with its planning team.

Landlord register

The national landlord register is separate from licensing. Harborough is in East Midlands, where registration is planned from 15 February 2027 to 14 May 2027. The regulations are still in draft. Read about the register