I let a shared house near Brunel. What does Hillingdon's new HMO licensing mean for the electrics?

From 24 August 2026, HMOs with three or more tenants from two or more households need a licence, not only the larger ones caught by mandatory licensing. The council asks applicants for evidence that the property meets its licensing standards, so have a current EICR ready, since landlords need one at least every five years anyway. If the report flags faults, we can carry out the remedial work.

Does a loft conversion on a 1930s house in Ickenham need new electrics?

Almost always. A new loft room needs lighting and sockets, usually on new circuits, and building regulations call for mains-powered, interlinked smoke alarms when a loft conversion adds a storey. It's also a good moment to look at the consumer unit, as an older board may have no spare ways or RCD protection for the extra circuits. All of it is notifiable work and should be certified.

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Uxbridge is an old market town with a lot of 20th century suburb around it. The centre keeps its 1788 Market House and the Old Uxbridge and Windsor Street conservation area, but much of the housing out towards Hillingdon, Cowley and Ickenham came between the wars. Ickenham grew after the Swakeleys estate was auctioned off in 1922, and Cowley saw a good deal of building in the 1930s, partly by the old Uxbridge council.

Brunel University's campus off Kingston Lane brings thousands of students, and the council's own figures show Uxbridge ward has more privately rented homes and more licensed HMOs than any other ward in Hillingdon. Shared houses put more demand on kitchen circuits and bedroom sockets than a family semi was wired for, and fire detection has to suit the number of people living there. Converting a family home into a small HMO now needs planning permission everywhere in Hillingdon, not only in the Brunel and Uxbridge South wards as before.

New homes are going up too, including St Andrew's Park on the former RAF Uxbridge site, a development of about 1,300 homes around the Battle of Britain Bunker. Where a house has its own driveway, a home EV charger is usually a straightforward job. We cover Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Cowley and Ickenham for chargers, rewires, consumer unit upgrades and landlord work, and shops in The Chimes, The Pavilions and along the High Street need PAT testing and commercial inspections too.

Landlords in Uxbridge

Hillingdon brought in borough-wide additional licensing for HMOs on 24 August 2026, covering shared houses let to three or more tenants who aren't all one household. Single-family lets aren't covered by that scheme, but the national requirement for an electrical inspection at least every five years still applies.

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