Exemptions to the additional licensing scheme include:
- properties let by a local authority or a registered provider (RP), commonly known as a not-for-profit housing association
- Properties already under a management order or empty dwelling management order
- Properties under a temporary exemption notice
- Owners who live in property they own as their main residence (owner-occupiers)
- Holiday lets and tenancies under a long lease (over 21 years) and business tenancies
- A house in multiple occupation (HMO) managed by a registered charity which:
- is a night shelter
- is temporary housing for people suffering or recovering from drug or alcohol abuse or a mental disorder
- A building that a religious community primarily uses for prayer, contemplation, education or helping the suffering
- Student accommodation directly managed by educational institutions, for example halls of residence
- Homes let to up to two single people who are unrelated
- Single family dwellings where a dwelling is occupied by one household
- Homes with only one lodger
- HMOs where:
- the building or part of a building is less than three storeys that have been converted into two self-contained flats
- where both the building and self-contained flats it contains are under different ownership or considered by the council to be effectively under the control of different landlords or agents
