Selective licensing · Thurrock Council
Thurrock Council Designation for Areas for Selective Licensing 2025 No 1
- Status
- In force
- Runs
- 5 January 2026 to 4 January 2031
- Designated
- 17 September 2025
- Fee
- £1,034.90 per property: £236.98 when you apply and £797.92 once the council is ready to grant the licence. If you have let the home for more than 12 weeks without applying, you pay the higher fee of £1,767.40 (£236.98 and £1,530.42) unless you can show it became licensable in the last 12 weeks. A paper application costs £500 more. No discounts.
- Applies to
- Every privately rented home in the 16 named wards, whoever lives there: a single person, a couple, a family or two sharers. Shared houses of three or more people from two or more households need an HMO licence instead, since Thurrock's additional HMO scheme covers the whole borough. Exempt: HMOs that need a mandatory or additional licence, homes let by a housing association or other social landlord, homes under a management order or with a temporary exemption, holiday lets, long leases and business tenancies, student halls run by a college or university, an owner's home with up to two lodgers, and the other kinds of letting exempt nationally.
Our records last verified 18 October 2026 · council designation page · licence conditions
Area covered
The designation covers these wards, as they were drawn when the scheme was made:
- Aveley and Uplands
- Belhus
- Chadwell St Mary
- Chafford and North Stifford
- Corringham and Fobbing
- East Tilbury
- Grays Riverside
- Grays Thurrock
- Little Thurrock Rectory
- Ockendon
- South Chafford
- Stanford East and Corringham Town
- Stanford-le-Hope West
- Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park
- Tilbury St Chads
- West Thurrock and South Stifford
What this means for landlords
Selective licensing applies to privately rented homes of any size in the designated area, including single lets. Letting an unlicensed property inside the area can mean a civil penalty of up to £40,000 and a rent repayment order of up to 24 months’ rent.
Is your property inside the scheme area?
This checker reflects HouseFile’s records of council licensing designations, not the councils’ live registers. Our records indicate the position at the verification date shown on each result. Schemes are designated, renewed and revoked throughout the year, and postcode-level lookups are approximate near scheme boundaries. Always confirm with the council before letting or buying a property, using the source link on each card. This is general information, not legal advice.
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