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Licensing in Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne has selective licensing in part of the council area and additional HMO licensing across the whole council area.

Checked 15 Oct 2026

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Licensing, ward by ward

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Additional HMO licensing also covers the whole council area.

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

Selective licensing
Part of the council area
Additional HMO licensing
Yes, whole council area
Article 4 on house shares
Yes
Consultation
None open

Licensing schemes

  • Selective licence

    In force

    Newcastle selective licensing 2025 – Cowgate

    Area

    Cowgate: exact designated streets/numbers below. Whole streets are included only where no number restriction is printed. Aspen Terrace; Chestnut Avenue; Deepdale Crescent - 2-40 even only; Eastern Way - 2-6 even only and 7-54 all numbers; Fouracres Road; Greenhill View; Harehills Avenue - 8-46 even only; Heathfield Crescent; High Moor Court; Hillsleigh Road - 2-58 even only; Link Road; Mayfield Terrace; Meadowdale Crescent -1-23 odd only; Ponteland Road - 58-252 even only and Moorside Court; Rose Terrace; The Dales; Whinmoor Place; Whitethorn Crescent

    Runs
    5 April 2025 to 4 April 2030
    Fee

    Published standard fee: £1,000

    2026/27 council fee schedule effective 1 May 2026: selective £1,000, split £300 application/processing + £700 enforcement. Discounts £100 for EPC C or above and £50 for valid application within one month of purchase. No general early-bird rate is inferred. Current licensing fee landing page still links June 2025 schedule; selective total/split agrees with later 2026/27 schedule.

    Who needs one
    Privately rented houses or flats let or occupied under a tenancy or licence within the exact Part 1 area, unless exempt.
    Exemptions
    Designation exempts properties requiring Part 2 HMO licensing (mandatory or additional), registered-social-landlord tenancies, interim/final management orders, section 86 temporary exemptions, and other statutory/Annex exemptions. Selective licensing does not duplicate the appropriate HMO licence.
    Apply on the council’s websiteLicence conditionsCouncil's map or designation
    How we checked this

    Made 22 October 2024 after Executive approval 14 October 2024; comes into force 5 April 2025. Paragraph 3 says “shall cease to have effect on 5 April 2030”: last day 2030-04-04 under this dataset’s convention. Exact street/number/odd-even restrictions in designation control; these are not whole electoral wards. Matcher streets remain empty to require an exact-address map/designation check. New 2025 conditions apply to this scheme; current conditions page also requires five hours housing training per year. Individual licences normally up to five years, with shorter terms for non-compliance per council FAQ.

    Sources

  • Selective licence

    In force

    Newcastle selective licensing 2025 – HHRS (Howdene Road/Howlett Hall Road/Ravenburn Gardens/Swinley Gardens)

    Area

    HHRS (Howdene Road/Howlett Hall Road/Ravenburn Gardens/Swinley Gardens): exact designated streets/numbers below. Whole streets are included only where no number restriction is printed. Howdene Road; Howlett Hall Road - 2-46 even only; Ravenburn Gardens; Swinley Gardens - 7-42 all numbers, 43-69 odd only

    Runs
    5 April 2025 to 4 April 2030
    Fee

    Published standard fee: £1,000

    2026/27 council fee schedule effective 1 May 2026: selective £1,000, split £300 application/processing + £700 enforcement. Discounts £100 for EPC C or above and £50 for valid application within one month of purchase. No general early-bird rate is inferred. Current licensing fee landing page still links June 2025 schedule; selective total/split agrees with later 2026/27 schedule.

    Who needs one
    Privately rented houses or flats let or occupied under a tenancy or licence within the exact Part 2 area, unless exempt.
    Exemptions
    Designation exempts properties requiring Part 2 HMO licensing (mandatory or additional), registered-social-landlord tenancies, interim/final management orders, section 86 temporary exemptions, and other statutory/Annex exemptions. Selective licensing does not duplicate the appropriate HMO licence.
    Apply on the council’s websiteLicence conditionsCouncil's map or designation
    How we checked this

    Made 22 October 2024 after Executive approval 14 October 2024; comes into force 5 April 2025. Paragraph 3 says “shall cease to have effect on 5 April 2030”: last day 2030-04-04 under this dataset’s convention. Exact street/number/odd-even restrictions in designation control; these are not whole electoral wards. Matcher streets remain empty to require an exact-address map/designation check. New 2025 conditions apply to this scheme; current conditions page also requires five hours housing training per year. Individual licences normally up to five years, with shorter terms for non-compliance per council FAQ.

    Sources

  • Selective licence

    In force

    Newcastle selective licensing 2025 – West End Terraces

    Area

    West End Terraces: exact designated streets/numbers below. Whole streets are included only where no number restriction is printed. Agricola Road; Axbridge Gardens; Barnesbury Road; Beaconsfield Street - 2-100 even only, 103-319 odd only and number 314; Beech Street; Belsay Place; Bentinck Road; Benwell Grove; Bishops Avenue; Brancepeth Avenue; Brighton Grove; Callerton Place; Canning Street; Chelsea Grove; Clifton Road - 51-53 odd only and 54-116 even only; Cliftonville Avenue; Clovelly Avenue; Colston Street; Condercum Road - 42-324 even only; Cookson Street; Coventry Gardens; Crossley Terrace; Croydon Road; Curtis Road – 1 and 2; Dilston Road; Dipton Avenue; Durham street; Eastgate Gardens; Ellesmere Road; Elliott terrace; Elswick Road - 297-315 odd only, 322-326 even only and 462-508 even only; Fairholm Road; Farndale Road; Fenham Road; Gainsborough Grove; Glebe Street; Grainger Park Road - 3-19 all numbers and 37-71 all numbers; Graingerville North; Hadrian Road - 1-9 odd only; Hampstead Road; Hartington Street; Hull Street; Keldane Gardens; Kingsley Terrace; Ladykirk Road; Longley Street; Mill Lane – numbers 262 and 264 only; Normanton Terrace; Normount Avenue; Normount Gardens; Normount Road; Northcote Street; Nuns Moor Road - 2-46 all numbers and 47-55 odd only; Portland Street; Philip Street; Prospect Place - 7-43 odd only; Sceptre Street; Severus Road - 1-22 all numbers; Sidney Grove; Stanhope Street - 257-294 all numbers; Stanton Street; Strathmore Crescent; Studley Terrace; Tamworth Road; Tiverton Avenue; Tweed Street; Ventnor Avenue; Walter Terrace - 7-20 all numbers; Wellesley Terrace; Wellfield Road; West Road - 1-75 odd only; Western Avenue - 2-40 all numbers; Western Drive; Westgate Road – South View and 368-585 all numbers; Wingrove Avenue; Wingrove Gardens - 7-139 odd only and 38-138 even only; Wingrove Road- 1-179 all numbers

    Runs
    5 April 2025 to 4 April 2030
    Fee

    Published standard fee: £1,000

    2026/27 council fee schedule effective 1 May 2026: selective £1,000, split £300 application/processing + £700 enforcement. Discounts £100 for EPC C or above and £50 for valid application within one month of purchase. No general early-bird rate is inferred. Current licensing fee landing page still links June 2025 schedule; selective total/split agrees with later 2026/27 schedule.

    Who needs one
    Privately rented houses or flats let or occupied under a tenancy or licence within the exact Part 3 area, unless exempt.
    Exemptions
    Designation exempts properties requiring Part 2 HMO licensing (mandatory or additional), registered-social-landlord tenancies, interim/final management orders, section 86 temporary exemptions, and other statutory/Annex exemptions. Selective licensing does not duplicate the appropriate HMO licence.
    Apply on the council’s websiteLicence conditionsCouncil's map or designation
    How we checked this

    Made 22 October 2024 after Executive approval 14 October 2024; comes into force 5 April 2025. Paragraph 3 says “shall cease to have effect on 5 April 2030”: last day 2030-04-04 under this dataset’s convention. Exact street/number/odd-even restrictions in designation control; these are not whole electoral wards. Matcher streets remain empty to require an exact-address map/designation check. New 2025 conditions apply to this scheme; current conditions page also requires five hours housing training per year. Individual licences normally up to five years, with shorter terms for non-compliance per council FAQ.

    Sources

  • Selective licence

    In force

    Newcastle selective licensing 2025 – Columbia Grange

    Area

    Columbia Grange: exact designated streets/numbers below. Whole streets are included only where no number restriction is printed. 1-20 all numbers

    Runs
    5 April 2025 to 4 April 2030
    Fee

    Published standard fee: £1,000

    2026/27 council fee schedule effective 1 May 2026: selective £1,000, split £300 application/processing + £700 enforcement. Discounts £100 for EPC C or above and £50 for valid application within one month of purchase. No general early-bird rate is inferred. Current licensing fee landing page still links June 2025 schedule; selective total/split agrees with later 2026/27 schedule.

    Who needs one
    Privately rented houses or flats let or occupied under a tenancy or licence within the exact Part 4 area, unless exempt.
    Exemptions
    Designation exempts properties requiring Part 2 HMO licensing (mandatory or additional), registered-social-landlord tenancies, interim/final management orders, section 86 temporary exemptions, and other statutory/Annex exemptions. Selective licensing does not duplicate the appropriate HMO licence.
    Apply on the council’s websiteLicence conditionsCouncil's map or designation
    How we checked this

    Made 22 October 2024 after Executive approval 14 October 2024; comes into force 5 April 2025. Paragraph 3 says “shall cease to have effect on 5 April 2030”: last day 2030-04-04 under this dataset’s convention. Exact street/number/odd-even restrictions in designation control; these are not whole electoral wards. Matcher streets remain empty to require an exact-address map/designation check. New 2025 conditions apply to this scheme; current conditions page also requires five hours housing training per year. Individual licences normally up to five years, with shorter terms for non-compliance per council FAQ.

    Sources

  • Selective licence

    In force

    Newcastle selective licensing 2025 – Denton Court

    Area

    Denton Court: exact designated streets/numbers below. Whole streets are included only where no number restriction is printed. 1-24 all numbers

    Runs
    5 April 2025 to 4 April 2030
    Fee

    Published standard fee: £1,000

    2026/27 council fee schedule effective 1 May 2026: selective £1,000, split £300 application/processing + £700 enforcement. Discounts £100 for EPC C or above and £50 for valid application within one month of purchase. No general early-bird rate is inferred. Current licensing fee landing page still links June 2025 schedule; selective total/split agrees with later 2026/27 schedule.

    Who needs one
    Privately rented houses or flats let or occupied under a tenancy or licence within the exact Part 5 area, unless exempt.
    Exemptions
    Designation exempts properties requiring Part 2 HMO licensing (mandatory or additional), registered-social-landlord tenancies, interim/final management orders, section 86 temporary exemptions, and other statutory/Annex exemptions. Selective licensing does not duplicate the appropriate HMO licence.
    Apply on the council’s websiteLicence conditionsCouncil's map or designation
    How we checked this

    Made 22 October 2024 after Executive approval 14 October 2024; comes into force 5 April 2025. Paragraph 3 says “shall cease to have effect on 5 April 2030”: last day 2030-04-04 under this dataset’s convention. Exact street/number/odd-even restrictions in designation control; these are not whole electoral wards. Matcher streets remain empty to require an exact-address map/designation check. New 2025 conditions apply to this scheme; current conditions page also requires five hours housing training per year. Individual licences normally up to five years, with shorter terms for non-compliance per council FAQ.

    Sources

  • Selective licence

    In force

    Newcastle selective licensing 2025 – Lemington

    Area

    Lemington: exact designated streets/numbers below. Whole streets are included only where no number restriction is printed. Algernon Road; Aln Grove - 2-8 even only; Beanley Avenue; Bennett Court – 1-17 all numbers; Blyth Court – 2-12 even only; Charlton Street; Charlton Mews – 1-5 all numbers; Dene Gardens; Denton Avenue - 2-22 even only; Denwick Avenue; Dunnock Court; Eva Street; Farnham Close; Farnham Mews; Farnham Street – 1-11 all numbers; Fernwood Road - 1-11 all numbers and 17,17A and 19; Gladstone Street; Hulne Terrace; Ingoe Street; Johnson Street; Lesbury Street; Loraine Terrace; Maud Street; Montague Street; The Hastings, Northumberland Road; Northumberland Road; Orchard Terrace; Percy Street – 1A only; Rokeby Avenue – 1-9 odd only; Rokeby Street; Rokeby Villas -1-11 odd only; Shipley Street; Store Street; Sugley Street; Sugley Villas –1-10 all numbers; The Orchard; Tyne View; Tynevale Terrace; Union Hall Road 1-46 all numbers and 47-55 odd only; Warkworth Street; Wellington Street; West View; Woodburn Street

    Runs
    5 April 2025 to 4 April 2030
    Fee

    Published standard fee: £1,000

    2026/27 council fee schedule effective 1 May 2026: selective £1,000, split £300 application/processing + £700 enforcement. Discounts £100 for EPC C or above and £50 for valid application within one month of purchase. No general early-bird rate is inferred. Current licensing fee landing page still links June 2025 schedule; selective total/split agrees with later 2026/27 schedule.

    Who needs one
    Privately rented houses or flats let or occupied under a tenancy or licence within the exact Part 6 area, unless exempt.
    Exemptions
    Designation exempts properties requiring Part 2 HMO licensing (mandatory or additional), registered-social-landlord tenancies, interim/final management orders, section 86 temporary exemptions, and other statutory/Annex exemptions. Selective licensing does not duplicate the appropriate HMO licence.
    Apply on the council’s websiteLicence conditionsCouncil's map or designation
    How we checked this

    Made 22 October 2024 after Executive approval 14 October 2024; comes into force 5 April 2025. Paragraph 3 says “shall cease to have effect on 5 April 2030”: last day 2030-04-04 under this dataset’s convention. Exact street/number/odd-even restrictions in designation control; these are not whole electoral wards. Matcher streets remain empty to require an exact-address map/designation check. New 2025 conditions apply to this scheme; current conditions page also requires five hours housing training per year. Individual licences normally up to five years, with shorter terms for non-compliance per council FAQ.

    Sources

  • Selective licence

    In forceMedium confidence

    Newcastle selective licensing 2026 – Greater High Cross

    Area

    Greater High Cross: exact designated streets/numbers; whole streets only where the instrument prints All. Adelaide Terrace odd 41–133; Alford Lane; Angel View; Armstrong Road even 2–66 and 304–342; Atherton Drive all numbers including Manisty House; Atkinson Road; Benwell Close; Benwell Grange Avenue; Benwell Grange Road; Benwell Grange Terrace; Benwell Lane 3 (The Vicarage) only; Bilbrough Gardens; Bishops Road; Caroline Court; Clara Street; Egerton Street; Elswick Road odd 337–387; Ethel Street; Gerald Street; Hodgkin Park Crescent; Hodgkin Park Road; Hugh Gardens; Joan Street; Lawson Terrace; Macdonald Road; Maria Street; Provost Gardens; Saint James Crescent; Saint Johns Road odd 75–117; South Benwell Road 45,46,48,50,52,54 and 100 only; Wishart House. PDF table pixels independently inspected: Armstrong Road ranges and Atherton Drive/Manisty House row alignment are clear. Streets remain empty for matching because this is not an exhaustive whole-road designation.

    Runs
    30 September 2026 to 29 September 2031
    Fee

    Published standard fee: £1,000

    2026/27 council fee schedule effective 1 May 2026: selective £1,000, split £300 application/processing + £700 enforcement. Discounts £100 for EPC C or above and £50 for valid application within one month of purchase. No general early-bird rate is inferred. Current licensing fee landing page still links June 2025 schedule; selective total/split agrees with later 2026/27 schedule.

    Who needs one
    Privately rented houses/flats let or occupied under tenancy or licence within the exact designation Part 1 boundary; statutory/designation exemptions apply.
    Exemptions
    Designation exempts properties requiring Part 2 HMO licensing (mandatory or additional), registered-social-landlord tenancies, interim/final management orders, section 86 temporary exemptions, and other statutory/Annex exemptions. Selective licensing does not duplicate the appropriate HMO licence.
    Apply on the council’s websiteLicence conditionsCouncil's map or designation
    How we checked this

    Made and Executive-approved 24 February 2026. Both designation paragraphs 2–3 and public notice specify commencement 30 September 2026 and remain in effect “up to and including 29 September 2031”; these dates are recorded. Current selective landing page and 12 May 2026 news release instead say 1 October 2026; council confirmation needed. Designation footer erroneously says Date 24 February 2024, while operative body/approval/public notice say 2026. Newly designated boundaries must be checked, not assumed identical to 2021. The conditions landing page still says April 2025 conditions exclude Byker/High Cross and links 2023 conditions for those areas; no specific 2026 conditions document was established, so conditions_url points to that official selection page pending confirmation. Independent visual inspection of the designation table resolves the extraction ambiguity: Manisty House is in the Atherton Drive row, consistent with the public notice. Exact-property checks still follow the instrument; no inferred whole-street matcher coverage.

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  • Selective licence

    In forceMedium confidence

    Newcastle selective licensing 2026 – Byker (including Allendale Road)

    Area

    Byker (including Allendale Road) exact designation table (All/Part column and ranges preserved; wrapped lines require council/plan check): Street Name; Ada Street | All; Alfred Street | All; Allendale Road | 31 – 189 odds | Part; Benson Road | All; Birds Nest Road | 1 – 7 odds | Part; Blount Street | 15 and 17 | Part; Bothal Street | 13 – 83 odds | Part; Brook Street | 70-74 evens, 71 -76 odds | Part; Canterbury Street | All; Chatsworth Gardens | All; Cleadon Street | All; Cresswell Street | All; Cullercoats Street | All; Dunmorlie Street | All; Emily Street | All; Gillies Street | All; Grace Street | All; Harriet Street | All; Irthing Avenue | All; Manor House Close | 2-8 evens, 1-9 odds | Part; Morton Street | All; Relton Avenue | All; Renwick Street | All; Roman Ave | 98 - 152 evens | Part; Scarborough Court; Scarborough Road | All; Tunstall Ave | 1 – 59 odds, 2-60 evens | Part; Welbeck Road | 9 – 337 odds, 408 -474 evens | Part

    Runs
    30 September 2026 to 29 September 2031
    Fee

    Published standard fee: £1,000

    2026/27 council fee schedule effective 1 May 2026: selective £1,000, split £300 application/processing + £700 enforcement. Discounts £100 for EPC C or above and £50 for valid application within one month of purchase. No general early-bird rate is inferred. Current licensing fee landing page still links June 2025 schedule; selective total/split agrees with later 2026/27 schedule.

    Who needs one
    Privately rented houses/flats let or occupied under tenancy or licence within the exact designation Part 2 boundary; statutory/designation exemptions apply.
    Exemptions
    Designation exempts properties requiring Part 2 HMO licensing (mandatory or additional), registered-social-landlord tenancies, interim/final management orders, section 86 temporary exemptions, and other statutory/Annex exemptions. Selective licensing does not duplicate the appropriate HMO licence.
    Apply on the council’s websiteLicence conditionsCouncil's map or designation
    How we checked this

    Made and Executive-approved 24 February 2026. Both designation paragraphs 2–3 and public notice specify commencement 30 September 2026 and remain in effect “up to and including 29 September 2031”; these dates are recorded. Current selective landing page and 12 May 2026 news release instead say 1 October 2026; council confirmation needed. Designation footer erroneously says Date 24 February 2024, while operative body/approval/public notice say 2026. Newly designated boundaries must be checked, not assumed identical to 2021. The conditions landing page still says April 2025 conditions exclude Byker/High Cross and links 2023 conditions for those areas; no specific 2026 conditions document was established, so conditions_url points to that official selection page pending confirmation. Brook Street source error: designation prints “70-74 evens, 71-76 odds”; public notice prints “70-74 odds and 71-76 odds”. The odd endpoint 76 is intrinsically inconsistent. Scarborough Court lacks an explicit All/Part entry in designation and public notice spells Scarbrough Court. No corrections, whole-street assumptions or number-range matcher are invented; council/address-plan confirmation required.

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  • Additional HMO licence

    In force

    Newcastle citywide additional HMO licensing 2025

    Area

    Entire administrative area of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, designation paragraph 4.

    Runs
    5 April 2025 to 4 April 2030
    Fee

    Published standard fee: £1,100

    2026/27 council schedule effective 1 May 2026: first HMO licence £1,100 (£400 application/processing + £700 enforcement), plus £20 for each occupant above five. HMO renewal £1,000 (£300 + £700); current application guidance says mandatory renewal must be made before expiry or it is a new application. Discounts: £100 EPC C or above; £50 valid new application within one month of purchase; £100 accreditation (licensing page/June 2025 schedule explicitly restrict accreditation to mandatory HMO). Current licensing page still links June 2025 £1,100 split £350/£750 without occupant multiplier; later effective 2026/27 schedule is used for current base/split/multiplier. No unsupported stacking or additional-renewal discount is inferred.

    Who needs one
    Designation paragraph 5A: three or more persons, two or more households, meeting section 254(2) standard test, section 254(3) self-contained flat test subject to its purpose-built exclusion, or section 254(4) converted-building test; OR paragraph 5B buildings meeting section 257 criteria. The scheme is therefore broader than just three/four-person shared houses.
    Exemptions
    Paragraph 5A(ii) excludes purpose-built flats situated in a block comprising three or more self-contained flats. Paragraph 6 excludes interim/final management orders and section 62 temporary exemptions. A property subject to mandatory licensing needs the appropriate mandatory licence rather than a duplicate additional licence; check statutory exemptions.
    Apply on the council’s websiteLicence conditionsCouncil's map or designation
    How we checked this

    Made 22 October 2024 following Executive approval 14 October 2024. Paragraph 2 commencement 5 April 2025; paragraph 3 “shall cease to have effect on 5 April 2030”, so last day 2030-04-04. Replaces the April 2020 citywide scheme, which ended before the past-12-month window. Current landing page summarises smaller HMOs but operative designation expressly includes section 257 and excludes the specified purpose-built flat category; operative scope is preserved. No blanket statement that all flats or all three-person properties qualify. Individual licence duration may be shorter than scheme duration.

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  • Mandatory HMO licence

    In force

    Mandatory HMO licensing

    Area

    Newcastle upon Tyne City Council administrative area; this is not Newcastle-under-Lyme.

    Fee

    Published standard fee: £1,100

    2026/27 council schedule effective 1 May 2026: first HMO licence £1,100 (£400 application/processing + £700 enforcement), plus £20 for each occupant above five. HMO renewal £1,000 (£300 + £700); current application guidance says mandatory renewal must be made before expiry or it is a new application. Discounts: £100 EPC C or above; £50 valid new application within one month of purchase; £100 accreditation (licensing page/June 2025 schedule explicitly restrict accreditation to mandatory HMO). Current licensing page still links June 2025 £1,100 split £350/£750 without occupant multiplier; later effective 2026/27 schedule is used for current base/split/multiplier. No unsupported stacking or additional-renewal discount is inferred.

    Who needs one
    HMOs with five or more occupants in two or more households sharing kitchen/bathroom facilities, subject to the national prescribed description and statutory exemptions.
    Apply on the council’s websiteLicence conditions
    How we checked this

    Council mandatory guidance confirms national threshold. Licence normally up to five years; current FAQ says compliant applicants receive five years and non-compliance can lead to one year. Applications made online with two fee payments; renew mandatory before current expiry. Licensing and Article 4 planning restrictions are separate.

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  • Selective licence

    Ended

    Greater High Cross and Byker selective licensing 2021 (expired)

    Area

    Original 2021 designation uses three separate geographic parts: Greater High Cross area bounded by Adelaide Terrace (north), St Johns Road (east), Atkinson Road (west), Armstrong Road (south), plus area bounded by Armstrong Road (north), Atkinson Road (east), South Benwell Road (west), Whitehouse Road (south); Byker Old Town bounded by Welbeck Road (south), Roman Avenue (east), Grace Street (north), Bothal Street (west); Byker Allendale South: 63–189 Allendale Road, 1–7 Bird Nest Road, Chatsworth Gardens, Irthing Avenue, Relton Avenue. Boundary roads are not automatically treated as both sides/whole streets. Use original designation/plan for exact address; 2026 replacement is separately delineated.

    Runs
    1 October 2021 to 29 September 2026
    Fee

    Not yet confirmed

    Historical 30 June 2021 letter states £650 five-year fee (£175 application + £475 issue). That launch fee is not asserted as the fee payable immediately before September 2026 expiry; current 2026 schedule separately states £1,000 selective fee.

    Who needs one
    Private rented houses in the original three designated 2021 parts, subject to statutory exemptions; retained as an expired designation, not current licensing coverage.
    Exemptions
    Statutory selective exemptions apply; the retrieved short 2021 public notice does not reproduce a detailed exemption schedule.
    Council's map or designation
    How we checked this

    Cabinet 21 June 2021; public notice 29 June 2021 and covering letter 30 June 2021. Commencement 1 October 2021; notice says “shall cease to have effect on 30 September 2026”, giving last day 29 September 2026 under dataset convention. Included because ended in last 12 months. This is distinct from the new 30 September 2026 designation, whose street numbering/boundaries differ. Do not apply current scheme’s boundaries, conditions or assumed fee retrospectively.

    Sources

Article 4 for house shares

Newcastle upon Tyne has an Article 4 direction on HMOs (houses in multiple occupation, or shared houses). Turning a family home into a shared house may need planning permission.

Area
Three separate mapped C3-to-C4 directions, not citywide: parts of Heaton, High West Jesmond, Jesmond, South Gosforth, Sandyford and Spital Tongues effective 25 November 2011; parts of High West Jesmond/North Jesmond effective 9 December 2012; Saint Gabriel’s Estate, Heaton effective 9 August 2013. Exact plans linked from council planning guidance control; locality names are not whole wards. One effective_date cannot represent all three, so null is intentional.

Council source

Civil penalty policy

The council's policy sets how it decides the size of a fine.

Current council private-sector-housing enforcement page still links June 2023 Civil Penalties Guidance and Housing Enforcement Policy 2023: newcastle.gov.uk . Retrieved guidance is pre-RRA: culpability/harm band + income/track record + financial benefit, and states £30,000 maximum. It is not treated as current post-RRA statutory ceiling. Searches retrieved an April 2026 Trading Standards Tenant Fees Act policy explicitly updated for RRA, but it is a distinct tenant-fees enforcement policy, not proof that this housing-licensing matrix has been updated. No housing-policy replacement/adoption decision was established; RRA update status remains null pending council confirmation. Newcastle-under-Lyme March 2026 policy decisions are a different authority and excluded.

Newcastle upon Tyne's civil penalty policy

Consultations

Not yet confirmed

We could not settle these points when we researched Newcastle upon Tyne on 15 October 2026. Check them with the council before you rely on them.

  • Not yet confirmed

    Resolve current guidance/news 1 October 2026 commencement against both legal designation and public notice 30 September 2026. Legal dates are retained, not silently aligned to web copy. The 2021 notice’s cease-30-September wording gives prior last day 29 September under schema.

  • Not yet confirmed

    Confirm new 2026 Brook Street ranges/odd-even sides and Scarborough/Scarbrough Court inclusion. Full designation/public notice disagree and contain apparent printing errors; no inference is encoded. The Manisty House alignment has been independently resolved from PDF pixels as Atherton Drive, consistent with the public notice. Obtain council confirmation for unresolved addresses.

  • Not yet confirmed

    All selective areas use kind=other and empty wards/streets because boundaries contain specific addresses and partial streets; whole current wards cannot safely substitute. The 2025 designation labels five areas but enumerates Parts 1–6; all six are retained. No independent polygon extraction has been undertaken.

  • Not yet confirmed

    Confirm the final 2026 licence conditions for Byker/High Cross: current conditions guidance excludes those areas from April 2025 conditions and links older 2023 conditions. Do not apply the 2025 suite indiscriminately.

  • Not yet confirmed

    Confirm whether a post-RRA private-sector-housing civil penalty policy has replaced the current page’s 2023 policy/guidance. The April 2026 Tenant Fees Act policy does not resolve the licensing matrix; Newcastle-under-Lyme policies are excluded.

  • Not yet confirmed

    Confirm the current 2026/27 HMO occupant multiplier, fee-stage split and applicability/stacking of accreditation discount in the licensing portal: later effective council schedule adds £20 per occupant above five and £400/£700 split; specialist fee landing page still links June 2025 £350/£750. Total base £1,100 agrees.

  • Not yet confirmed

    No other new/proposed licensing consultation or operative designation was identified in current licensing pages, consultation results and targeted 2026 council searches as of 15 October 2026. Current recent-consultations page retains stale 2024 pending-result wording; signed 2024/2026 designations take precedence.

Landlord register

The national landlord register is separate from licensing. Newcastle upon Tyne is in North East, where registration is planned from 15 June 2027 to 14 September 2027. The regulations are still in draft. Read about the register