HMO Revocations
Case reference FOI2025/01598
Received 13 August 2025
Published 10 September 2025
Request
According to this recent FOI request, LINK, the council has already revoked licences on 12 HMOs in the county so far this year - the same figure as for the whole of last year, which was in turn higher than for previous years.
Can the council please say what the reasons were for each of this year's 12 revocations, and what their geographical split was between Hereford, each of the market towns, and the wider county?
Response
According to this recent FOI request, LINK, the council has already revoked licences on 12 HMOs in the county so far this year - the same figure as for the whole of last year, which was in turn higher than for previous years. Can the council please say what the reasons were for each of this year's 12 revocations, and what their geographical split was between Hereford, each of the market towns, and the wider county?
Answer: There has been an error in the data that was published. The service area has advised that so far there has been 0 revocations this year. I have included the corrected answers below.
Year HMO Licence Revocations (MHX)
2018 0
2019 2
2020 1
2021 2
2022 3
2023 9
2024 5
2025 0
I would like to offer my sincere apologies for this oversight.
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