Tower Hamlets Selective Licensing Scheme (Whitechapel, Weavers, Spitalfields & Banglatown)

Area covered

The designation covers a defined area of London Borough of Tower Hamlets — check your exact address with the checker below, and against the map on the council’s designation page, because scheme boundaries are street-precise.

London Borough of Tower Hamlets also runs its own address-level lookup: check whether a specific address falls inside the scheme.

What this means for landlords

Selective licensing applies to privately rented homes in the designated area regardless of size — single lets included. Letting an unlicensed property inside the area can mean a civil penalty of up to £30,000, a rent repayment order of up to 12 months’ rent, and no valid possession notice until the position is fixed.