🔴 IS LIVE NOW
Burnley Wood with Healey Wood and Leyland Road; runs 2022-07-21 to 2027-07-20; coverage: partial; fee: £715 (Online application total), £640 (Previous Burnley licence holder)
Designated areas: Burnley Wood with Healey Wood, Leyland Road area. Partial-coverage schemes only apply on specific streets — check the council's own boundary map for your exact address.
High confidence — verified on the council's own site. Sources: https://burnley.gov.uk/housing/private-rented-sector/selective-licensing/designated-areas-in-burnley/ · https://burnley.gov.uk/housing/private-rented-sector/selective-licensing/
🔴 IS LIVE NOW
Trinity, Daneshouse, Gannow, Queensgate, Padiham; runs 2025-04-27 to 2030-04-26; coverage: partial; fee: £750 (Online application total), £670 (Previous Burnley licence holder)
Designated areas: Trinity, Daneshouse, Gannow, Queensgate, Padiham. Partial-coverage schemes only apply on specific streets — check the council's own boundary map for your exact address.
High confidence — verified on the council's own site. Sources: https://burnley.gov.uk/housing/private-rented-sector/selective-licensing/designated-areas-in-burnley/ · https://residentiallandlord.co.uk/burnley-councillors-approve-selective-licensing-renewal-with-higher-fees/
🕓 CONSULTATION
Proposed redesignation + Lyndhurst Road area; coverage: partial. Consultation running 3 August to 18 October 2026 on redesignating the 2022 areas (which expire July 2027) plus adding Lyndhurst Road.
✓ No additional scheme found
Researched with no evidence of a live scheme. Licensing status changes on a weeks-to-months cadence, not annually — this is why we date every page.
This scheme is already live — an unlicensed property in a designated area is an offence now, not later.
Burnley Borough Council's selective scheme only covers designated wards, not the whole authority — so the first question is whether your specific address is actually in one. We check that against ONS ward data for your postcode, not a guess from the council name.
Our Licence Application Pack works out exactly which scheme covers your specific address, the real fee breakdown and discounts you can claim, every document the council's own form asks for, and the submission link and deadline — delivered as one dated, ready-to-submit pack.
Licence fees in Burnley Borough Council: £715–£750 per property, paid to the council on top of any help you get preparing the application.
£149 one-off. The NRLA, the UK's largest landlord association, resells done-for-you licence application handling through a partner at £295–£425 + VAT per application.
Check if you need a licence — free →The free check tells you whether a licence is required at all. We only sell you a pack if one genuinely is. We prepare the application — you submit it to the council yourself.
These apply regardless of Burnley Borough Council's own licensing rules — every England landlord is on the hook for these:
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