Pay your Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) penalty charge

Payment system downtime, 
2 November 2026

Due to essential maintenance, our payment system will be unavailable from Friday 30 October 2026 until Tuesday 3 November 2026.

During this period, we will be unable to accept any payments. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.

Use this page to pay a penalty notice for not meeting the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) in Rented Homes.

Before you pay online

To pay a MEES penalty you will need:

• the MEES penalty number, which can be found on your penalty charge notice.

Other ways of paying

By post

Please make your cheque payable to B&NES Council. Send it to Trading Standards, Bath and North East Somerset Council, Lewis House, Manvers Street, Bath, BA1 1JG. Clearly write your name, address and MEES penalty number on the back of your cheque.

We cannot accept post-dated cheques and we do not send receipts for cheque payments.