What is an HMO?
See below for changes to licensing and how it might affect you.
Type of HMO
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The Changes |
When do I have to apply? |
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3 or 4 person HMO in Bath city and do not have a licence |
Additional Licensing Area is extended to the whole City of Bath from 1 January 2019 |
Apply NOW |
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5 or more person HMO with an Additional HMO licence |
You need to apply for a Mandatory HMO licence |
Apply NOW |
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5 or more person HMO with a mandatory HMO licence |
None |
When the current licence expires |
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5 or more person HMO without a HMO licence in BANES |
You need to apply for a Mandatory HMO licence |
Apply NOW |
*If you just purchased a HMO in the Additional Licensing Area, apply for a licence now.
Mandatory licensing
You need a licence if the property:
- is occupied by five or more people;
- those people form two or more households;
- tenants share an amenity like a kitchen, bathroom or toilet.
Mandatory Licensing covers the whole of Bath and North East Somerset
Mandatory Licensed properties do not need an Additional Licence.
Additional licensing
Bath and North East Somerset Council introduced an Additional Licensing scheme on the 1st January 2014 and extended on the 1st of January 2019 city wide for another five years.
What is Additional Licensing
You need a licence if the property is:
- in the boundary of the City of Bath
- and is occupied by three or four people;
- those people form two or more households;
- tenants share an amenity like a kitchen, bathroom or toilet.
New Additional Licensing area map
Additional Licences are not required for buildings converted entirely into self-contained flats (s257 HMOs), although the individual flats maybe licensable in their own right; purpose built student accommodation where the organisation which manages the building is subject to a national approved code of practice and the building in question is subject to that code.
Apply for a licence