Leeds HMO amenity standards

Leeds’s HMO licensing page states that a licence is required where five or more people from more than one household share a toilet, bathroom or kitchen. Licence conditions cover the HMO licence training course, fire safety, kitchen facilities, property heating and bathroom facilities. The council also publishes HMO advisory notes that explain how to meet those conditions.

Source: Leeds — Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licensing.

For licensed HMOs in England, the Licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation (Mandatory Conditions of Licences) (England) Regulations 2018 set sleeping-room floors at 6.51 m² for one person over 10, 10.22 m² for two people over 10, and 4.64 m² for one child under 10. Rooms below 4.64 m² must not be used as sleeping accommodation. Leeds’s crowding and space guidance explicitly discusses those 2018 HMO regulations alongside HHSRS crowding assessments.

Regulation text: SI 2018/616.

Leeds withdrew older local space standards and now points landlords to furniture schedules and HHSRS crowding and space assessments. The crowding and space guidance explains how officers measure floor area, judge functional space and score hazards. It sits beside licence conditions rather than replacing them, so a house can fail on HHSRS crowding even when bedroom floors clear the national minima.

Source: Leeds — Crowding and space guidance.

Leeds’s conditions pages for licensed houses walk through fire detection grades, fire doors, escape routes and kitchen fire blankets. Those details decide whether a measured layout can be licensed at the stated occupancy. Attach the measured schedule and advisory notes when selling: Sell an HMO in Leeds.

English licensed HMOs share the 2018 prescribed bedroom floors, while councils layer local amenity guides, licence conditions and HHSRS practice on top. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland use different HMO licensing statutes. Overview: HMO standards.