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Licensing in Surrey Heath

Surrey Heath has no selective or additional licensing scheme in force.

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  • National rules only14

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 force

    Mandatory HMO licensing (national scheme, Surrey Heath fees)

    Area

    Whole Surrey Heath Borough Council area (national scheme).

    Fee

    Published standard fee: £896.20

    Council HMO licence page: £896.20, or £773.70 for members of any nationally recognised landlord accreditation scheme or association. No page date shown. The GOV.UK application listing for Surrey Heath shows different (older) figures and should not be relied on.

    Who needs one
    'All properties let to five or more people, who form two or more households should have a HMO Licence.'
    Apply on the council’s website
    How we checked this

    The page says the licence 'will be valid for five years and must be renewed before it runs out'; each HMO needs its own licence. Applications are made through online forms for new licences and relicensing, with a checklist of documents (fire risk assessment, gas and electrical certificates, fit and proper person information). The page covers mandatory licensing only.

    Sources

Article 4 for house shares

Not yet confirmed

Whether Surrey Heath has an Article 4 direction on house shares.

Council source

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.

Executive decision of 21 April 2026 (surreyheath.moderngov.co.uk): 'the updated Surrey Heath Housing Standards Enforcement Policy and Housing Civil Penalty Policy attached at Annex A and Annex B are approved to take effect from 1st May 2026', with decisions under the Renters' Rights Act 2025 delegated to the Director of Built Environment and Regulation and the Director of Housing, Community and Recreation. The Housing Civil Penalty Policy (Annex B) sets £7,000 and £40,000 maxima; failure to obtain an HMO licence (s.72(1)) starts at £17,000 (£13,600 / £17,000 / £20,400 by landlord type), and failure to obtain a selective licence (s.95) is also covered; licence-condition breaches use council-set starting levels. A 15% discount applies for full payment within the final-notice period.

Surrey Heath's civil penalty policy

Consultations

We found no consultations when we researched Surrey Heath.

Not yet confirmed

We could not settle these points when we researched Surrey Heath. 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 does not state the absence; committee-document searches (surreyheath.moderngov.co.uk) for "selective licensing" return nothing and "additional licensing" only a 2006 Executive item.

  • Not yet confirmed

    Absence of an HMO Article 4 direction is inferred: the conservation page does not mention Article 4 directions, planning.data.gov.uk holds no Surrey Heath records, and a committee-document search for "article 4" returns no results (the index may be incomplete). No council list of Article 4 directions was found.

  • Not yet confirmed

    The HMO page shows no date; confirm the current fee with the council.

  • Not yet confirmed

    Surrey local government reorganisation: Mole Valley's published notice says two unitary councils, East Surrey Council and West Surrey Council, 'will replace the existing 12 councils in April 2027' (https://www.molevalley.gov.uk/privacy-notice-local-government-reorganisation/); this council falls in West Surrey. HMO licensing will then be run by the new council; check its fees and any new schemes after that date.

Landlord register

The national landlord register is separate from licensing. Surrey Heath is in South East, where registration is planned from 15 March 2027 to 14 June 2027. The regulations are still in draft. Read about the register