Bromley
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Landlord licensing in Bromley
Mandatory HMO licensing applies across England. Bromley may also operate additional or selective licensing.
- Selective licensing
- Not in operation. No selective licensing scheme is published by Bromley. The council's landlord guidance covers only mandatory HMO licensing: a licence is required where a property is 'Occupied by 5 or more tenants, 4 or more if there is a live-in landlord, in 2 or more households' with 'at least 1 kitchen, bathroom or toilet shared by the tenants'. Licences run for five years and must be renewed before expiry.
- Additional HMO licensing
- Not in operation. Bromley's landlord HMO pages describe only mandatory HMO licensing. No additional licensing scheme is published. Note this is an absence of any council scheme page rather than an explicit council statement ruling one out.
The control Bromley does exercise is through PLANNING, not licensing. Bromley made an Article 4 Direction removing permitted development rights for HMOs with effect from 1 September 2022 — confirmed directly from the council's own HMO advice page, not just a secondary news item — so converting a family house to a small HMO in Bromley requires planning permission even where it would be permitted development elsewhere. This is the single most commercially important Bromley fact for a would-be HMO landlord — the licensing burden is light but the planning gate is real. Bromley has also adopted local HMO standards that go beyond the nationally prescribed minimum. Bromley additionally publishes guidance on the Building Safety Levy. The council's own 'Apply for a HMO licence' page states the mandatory HMO fees for 2026/27: Part 1 (Licence Administration Fee) / Part 2 (Licensing Fee) — up to 5 units £1,589 / £1,059; per each additional unit £318 / £212. No Bromley page found states explicitly that the council has considered and does not operate selective or additional licensing — the 'no scheme' conclusion remains an absence-based inference from the HMO advice pages and a site search returning no results for 'selective licensing'.
Checked against the council’s own pages on 21 July 2026. Licensing schemes are five-year designations that expire and get redesignated on their own timetables — always confirm on BromleyCouncil’s licensing pages before applying or paying.
What Bromley is built of — and what that means for repairs
Bromley is London's largest borough by area and its most suburban in character. The north — Penge, Anerley and Beckenham — carries denser Victorian and Edwardian terraces and villas. The suburban heartland around Bromley South, Shortlands, Bickley, Chislehurst, Orpington and Petts Wood is dominated by interwar detached and semi-detached houses with bay windows, tile hanging, pebbledash and mock-Tudor detailing, on generous plots. More than half the borough is Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land, concentrated in the rural south and east, with low-density village and former-country-estate housing.
Common repair issues in Bromley
- Large interwar detached and semi-detached houses with original pitched and hipped roofs, rendered or pebbledashed elevations and end-of-life timber windows
- Substantial extension, loft conversion and garage-conversion demand driven by generous plot sizes — but gated by the HMO Article 4 Direction where the change of use is to an HMO
- Solid-wall Victorian and Edwardian terraces and villas in Penge, Anerley and Beckenham with damp and thermal performance problems
- Subsidence and heave on London Clay, worsened by mature trees on large suburban gardens
- Listed buildings, conservation areas and tree preservation orders constraining work, particularly around Chislehurst and the historic village cores
- Older private drainage, septic and off-mains heating arrangements in the Green Belt villages in the south of the borough
Areas we cover in Bromley
- Bromley Town
- Beckenham
- Orpington
- Chislehurst
- Penge
- Petts Wood
- Biggin Hill
- Shortlands
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