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Property licensing

Find out about mandatory, additional and selective licences and if you need one. What happens if you do not have one when you should.

Selective licensing

Selective licensing is needed by all other privately rented properties in our selective licensing delegations, not covered by mandatory or additional licensing.

Selective licensing designation Southwark wards include:

  • Champion Hill, Newington
  • Faraday, Goose Green, St Giles
  • North Walworth, Nunhead & Queens Road, Old Kent Road, Peckham
  • Camberwell Green, Chaucer, Dulwich Hill, Dulwich Wood, London Bridge and West Bermondsey, Peckham Rye, Rotherhithe, Rye Lane, South Bermondsey, Surrey Docks

View our interactive map to see if your property needs a selective licence.

See the Public Notice for designations 1 and 2 of selective licensing

See the Public Notice for designations 3 and 4 of selective licensing