Safety certificates in Central London.
Serving Central London and nearby postcodes. Contact us to confirm whether we cover your address.
Every borough, as its own block.
Real administrative boundaries, not an illustration. Select a borough on the map or from the list below it; both do the same thing, and the list works without the map.
Central LondonWestminster, Kensington and Chelsea, City of London — and parts of Camden, Islington, Southwark, Lambeth
London postcode areas
E · EC · N · NW · SE · SW · W · WC
London postcode areas, all within Greater London.
Bordering areas
BR · CR · DA · EN · HA · IG · KT · RM · SM · TW · UB · WD
These run past the Greater London boundary. Contact us to confirm whether we cover your address.
Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2023. Contains ONS data © Crown copyright and database right 2023.
Choose a borough to see its coverage. Every one of the 32 boroughs and the City of London is listed below, and each is reachable without the map.
Check my propertyALL 32 BOROUGHS AND THE CITY OF LONDON
- City of LondonCITY
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Bexley
- Brent
- Bromley
- Camden
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kingston upon Thames
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Merton
- Newham
- Redbridge
- Richmond upon Thames
- Southwark
- Sutton
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Westminster
BOUNDARIES: LOCAL AUTHORITY DISTRICTS (DECEMBER 2023) BOUNDARIES UK BGC · OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS — OPEN GEOGRAPHY PORTAL · BGC — GENERALISED CLIPPED, 20M · OPEN GOVERNMENT LICENCE V3 · BOUNDARIES ARE THE ONS GENERALISED PRODUCT, NOT FULL RESOLUTION.
What we inspect changes with the housing stock, not the postcode.
Compliance duties follow the building: when it was built, whether it has communal parts, how it is let. Those things cluster by area, so the five pages below are written around stock rather than around borough names.
- 7 BOROUGHSCentral LondonDense leasehold: mansion blocks, period conversions and purpose-built flats, most of them in buildings with communal parts.What it means for compliance
- 6 BOROUGHSNorth LondonVictorian and Edwardian houses converted to flats in volume, many with a shared front door and stair.What it means for compliance
- 8 BOROUGHSEast LondonThe widest spread in London: large post-2000 blocks alongside Victorian terraces converted heavily to HMOs.What it means for compliance
- 9 BOROUGHSSouth LondonSubstantial ex-local-authority blocks and large period houses converted to flats. Pre-2000 construction is the norm.What it means for compliance
- 7 BOROUGHSWest LondonLarge period stock and mansion blocks, with a higher proportion of bigger properties than the rest of London.What it means for compliance
A page per borough would say the same thing thirty-two times with the name swapped. What actually differs between a flat in Kensington and a terrace in Newham is the building: its age, whether it has a shared stair, and how it is let. That is what these five pages are about. Licensing is the one thing that genuinely varies council by council, and we point you at the council for it rather than restating a scheme that may have lapsed.
The 32 London boroughs, and the City of London
The City of London is a separate authority rather than a borough, so it is listed as one. Each name links to the coverage page for its part of London.
- City of LondonCITY
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Bexley
- Brent
- Bromley
- Camden
- Croydon
- Ealing
- Enfield
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Havering
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kingston upon Thames
- Lambeth
- Lewisham
- Merton
- Newham
- Redbridge
- Richmond upon Thames
- Southwark
- Sutton
- Tower Hamlets
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Westminster
HMO and selective licensing varies by borough, and it changes
Mandatory HMO licensing applies across England to houses in multiple occupation with five or more occupiers forming more than one household. On top of that, individual councils run additional and selective licensing designations, which differ by borough and are renewed, redrawn or allowed to lapse on their own timetables.
Every document, one engineer network.
Booked together where the qualifications allow, so one visit covers several records.
Gas Safety Certificate
Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998
EICR
Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector (England) Regulations 2020
Energy Performance Certificate
Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012, with the Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015
Fire Risk Assessment
Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, as amended by the Fire Safety Act 2021 and section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022
PAT Testing
Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, and the mandatory licence conditions in Schedule 4 to the Housing Act 2004
Asbestos Management Survey
Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
Tell us about the property.
Four questions about the building and how it is let. The answer lists the documents the law requires for it, when each expires and what it costs.
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