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Did you know that over and above mandatory licensing, there are two other types of licence that a council can introduce?
Additional Licensing
This is when a council can require a licence for other categories of HMOs (such as smaller HMOs with three or more tenants living there) that are not subject to mandatory licensing. The council can do this if it considers that a significant proportion of these HMOs are being managed ineffectively so as to give rise to one or more particular problems, either for the occupants of the HMOs or for members of the public.
Selective Licensing
This can apply to HMOs as well as other dwellings, and can only be introduced if the council is satisfied there are problems with low housing demand or significant and persistent problems of Anti-social Behaviour (ASB) linked to the private rented homes in that area. When assessing ASB, government guidance says that councils should consider crime, nuisance neighbours and environmental crime, and then assess whether landlords are failing to take appropriate action to help resolve the problem.
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