Letbinder

Landlord register deadlines for every council in England

GOV.UK's "Register your rental property" service opens on 15 December 2026, and anyone can register from then. Registration becomes required region by region, each with a three-month deadline; every letting landlord in England must be registered by 14 November 2027.

RegionRequired fromDeadline
West Midlands15 December 202614 March 2027
East of England15 January 202714 April 2027
East Midlands15 February 202714 May 2027
South East15 March 202714 June 2027
Yorkshire and Humber15 April 202714 July 2027
North West15 May 202714 August 2027
North East15 June 202714 September 2027
London15 July 202714 October 2027
South West15 August 202714 November 2027

West Midlands

Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Cannock Chase, Coventry, Dudley, East Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Lichfield, Malvern Hills, Newcastle-under-Lyme, North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Redditch, Rugby, Sandwell, Shropshire, Solihull, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire, Staffordshire Moorlands, Stoke-on-Trent, Stratford-on-Avon, Tamworth, Telford and Wrekin, Walsall, Warwick, Warwickshire, Wolverhampton, Worcester, Worcestershire, Wychavon, Wyre Forest.

East of England

Babergh, Basildon, Bedford, Braintree, Breckland, Brentwood, Broadland, Broxbourne, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Castle Point, Central Bedfordshire, Chelmsford, Colchester, Dacorum, East Cambridgeshire, East Hertfordshire, East Suffolk, Epping Forest, Essex, Fenland, Great Yarmouth, Harlow, Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, Huntingdonshire, Ipswich, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, Luton, Maldon, Mid Suffolk, Norfolk, North Hertfordshire, North Norfolk, Norwich, Peterborough, Rochford, South Cambridgeshire, South Norfolk, Southend-on-Sea, St Albans, Stevenage, Suffolk, Tendring, Three Rivers, Thurrock, Uttlesford, Watford, Welwyn Hatfield, West Suffolk.

East Midlands

Amber Valley, Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Blaby, Bolsover, Boston, Broxtowe, Charnwood, Chesterfield, Derby, Derbyshire, Derbyshire Dales, East Lindsey, Erewash, Gedling, Harborough, High Peak, Hinckley and Bosworth, Leicester, Leicestershire, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Mansfield, Melton, Newark and Sherwood, North East Derbyshire, North Kesteven, North Northamptonshire, North West Leicestershire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Oadby and Wigston, Rushcliffe, Rutland, South Derbyshire, South Holland, South Kesteven, West Lindsey, West Northamptonshire.

South East

Adur, Arun, Ashford, Basingstoke and Deane, Bracknell Forest, Brighton and Hove, Buckinghamshire, Canterbury, Cherwell, Chichester, Crawley, Dartford, Dover, East Hampshire, East Sussex, Eastbourne, Eastleigh, Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Fareham, Folkestone and Hythe, Gosport, Gravesham, Guildford, Hampshire, Hart, Hastings, Havant, Horsham, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lewes, Maidstone, Medway, Mid Sussex, Milton Keynes, Mole Valley, New Forest, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Portsmouth, Reading, Reigate and Banstead, Rother, Runnymede, Rushmoor, Sevenoaks, Slough, South Oxfordshire, Southampton, Spelthorne, Surrey, Surrey Heath, Swale, Tandridge, Test Valley, Thanet, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells, Vale of White Horse, Waverley, Wealden, West Berkshire, West Oxfordshire, West Sussex, Winchester, Windsor and Maidenhead, Woking, Wokingham, Worthing.

Yorkshire and Humber

Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, Doncaster, East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull, Kirklees, Leeds, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, Rotherham, Sheffield, Wakefield, York.

North West

Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Chorley, Cumberland, Fylde, Halton, Hyndburn, Knowsley, Lancashire, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Pendle, Preston, Ribble Valley, Rochdale, Rossendale, Salford, Sefton, South Ribble, St Helens, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Warrington, West Lancashire, Westmorland and Furness, Wigan, Wirral, Wyre.

North East

County Durham, Darlington, Gateshead, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland, Redcar and Cleveland, South Tyneside, Stockton-on-Tees, Sunderland.

London

Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, City of London, 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.

South West

Bath and North East Somerset, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Bristol, Cheltenham, Cornwall, Cotswold, Devon, Dorset, East Devon, Exeter, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Isles of Scilly, Mid Devon, North Devon, North Somerset, Plymouth, Somerset, South Gloucestershire, South Hams, Stroud, Swindon, Teignbridge, Tewkesbury, Torbay, Torridge, West Devon, Wiltshire.

Please note. Letbinder is not the government's service and is not affiliated with GOV.UK. It doesn't register you, and it isn't legal advice. These dates come from the draft regulations and GOV.UK's announcement, and may change before the rules are final.