See the map.
Every licensed HMO near an address, with licence dates and current register status. Straight from the council register, with the date we last refreshed it.
Find out what’s on
your street.
Licensed HMOs, live planning applications and Article 4 status — from official council registers, free to search.
Licensed HMOs near youIllustrative
6 licensed2 pending
—
licensed HMOs mapped
no registers ingested yet
0
councils searchable
registers refreshed on a schedule
0
Article 4 areas tracked
where conversions need permission
What you get
Get told first.
Email alerts when someone applies to turn a house near you into an HMO — before the consultation window closes.
Know the rules.
Whether your area has an Article 4 direction, and what that means for whether anyone needs permission at all.
Article 4 explained
In most of England, nobody has to tell you.
Converting a house to a small HMO is usually permitted development — no application, no notice to neighbours, no chance to object. That only changes where the council has made an Article 4 direction. We show you which one you’re in.
No Article 4 direction
- No planning application required
- No public notification to neighbours
- No consultation period
- No right to object
- Conversion can happen without council knowledge
Article 4 direction in force
- Full planning application required
- Application publicly advertised
- Neighbours notified
- Consultation period open
- You can submit comments and objections
Wales and Scotland work differently: in Wales, converting to a small HMO has needed permission everywhere since 2016. Scotland has no C4 use class at all.
Status key
What each marker on the map means.
Licensed
On the council register, licence in force.
Pending
The register records an application or renewal in progress.
Expired
The register shows this licence as expired, lapsed or revoked.
Resident reports — area level only
A report from a resident is an unverified allegation. We pass it to the council and count it at ward level. It never appears as a marker, an address or a name, and it is not a status a property can have on this map. Absence from the map does not mean a property is unlicensed.
Data sources
Official sources, and we show our working.
Data comes from council public registers published under the Open Government Licence. Every record carries its source council and the date it was last refreshed.
Some councils update their register monthly. Some haven’t updated since 2018. We show you the date on every record rather than pretending otherwise.
What we don’t do.
- We don’t publish licence holders’ names or home addresses.
- We don’t publish bedroom counts or occupancy at an address.
- We don’t sell leads to people buying or building HMOs.
- We’re not funded by the property industry.
- We don’t infer or speculate beyond what the registers state.
If you live at a property on this map, you can have it removed within 48 hours. We don’t ask why.
Which council do you need?
These registers are public by law and scattered across 361separate websites. Check any council to see what is available for that area — and where one isn’t published, we ask for it formally and publish what they say.