Can a licence be cancelled (revoked)?

The licence will end automatically after 5 years or after the period specified in the licence (if that is different).

Local authorities may revoke a licence (i.e. bring it to an end before it expires by passage of time) in the flowing circumstances:

With the agreement of the licence holder, for example if the property stops being an HMO.
Where there has been a serious or repeated breach of a licence condition.
The licence holder is no longer a fit and proper person.
The management of the property is no longer being carried out by persons who are fit and proper persons to be involved with its management.
The property no longer falls within the mandatory licensing regime and the LHA considers that if a new application were made for a licence the structure of the property is such that a new licence would not be granted.

On revocation of a licence (unless this is because the HMO no longer requires to be licensed) the local authority must grant another licence or make an Interim Management Order.

>> What happens on the death of a licence holder?

A licence ceases to be in force on the death of a licence holder and for the first three months following the death of that person no licence is required as if a temporary exemption notice had been issued and was in force.

Unless the HMO ceases to be licensable within that period or the LHA grants a temporary exemption notice on the expiry of that period the HMO must be re-licensed or an Interim Management Order made in respect of it.

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