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Licensing in Maldon

Maldon has no selective or additional licensing scheme in force.

Checked 14 Oct 2026

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Licensing, ward by ward

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  • National rules only17

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
None found
Consultation
None open

Licensing schemes

  • Mandatory HMO licence

    In force

    Mandatory HMO licensing (national scheme, Maldon fees)

    Area

    The whole of Maldon District (national scheme).

    Fee

    £1,099 for 5 years

    From the council's 'Environmental Fees from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027': new licence £1,099 for up to 5 habitable rooms; renewal £758; £61 for each extra room. The fee is made up of Part A (cost of the application) and Part B (cost of issuing and associated activities); if a licence is refused, only Part B is refunded.

    Who needs one
    Properties rented to five or more people who form more than one household, where tenants share toilet, bathroom or kitchen facilities. The council notes that an HMO with 3 or 4 unrelated occupants is not licensable.
    Exemptions
    The council mentions exemptions where the landlord is a registered social landlord or similar body, or where there is a resident landlord (depending on numbers).
    Apply on the council's website
    How we checked this

    This is the national scheme. Maldon publishes its own page and fees. Licences are valid for five years; renewals use a separate GOV.UK form (gov.uk), and paper forms are available on request. The council aims to decide applications within three months; tacit consent does not apply. Licences carry conditions on the operation of the HMO, and the council applies the Essex HMO Amenity Standards (maldon.gov.uk). The public HMO register is published as a download on the HMO page.

    Sources

Article 4 for house shares

We found no Article 4 direction on house shares in Maldon.

Council source

Civil penalty policy

Not yet confirmed

We have not found Maldon's civil penalty policy yet.

Consultations

We found no consultations when we researched Maldon.

Not yet confirmed

We could not settle these points when we researched Maldon on 14 October 2026. Check them with the council before you rely on them.

  • Not yet confirmed

    No selective or additional licensing scheme, proposal or consultation was found. The council's HMO page covers mandatory licensing only and says 3 or 4 person HMOs are not licensable. The council's site search returned no results for any term, and committee papers (democracy.maldon.gov.uk) were not searched in full.

  • Not yet confirmed

    No civil penalty policy was found. Confirm with the council whether one has been adopted, including any Renters' Rights Act 2025 update.

  • Not yet confirmed

    The council's Housing, Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy 2026-2031 consultation (open 28 September to 25 October 2026, https://www.maldon.gov.uk/housingconsultation) was checked; its proposed vision and priorities do not mention landlord licensing.

Landlord register

The national landlord register is separate from licensing. Maldon is in East of England, where registration is planned from 15 January 2027 to 14 April 2027. The regulations are still in draft. Read about the register