Derby City Council is the licensing and planning authority for Mickleover. We check its rules for the exact street before we draw a single partition.
We'll tell you plainly if a house in Mickleover isn't suited to the number of rooms you have in mind, and what it would take to make it work.
HMO rules in Derby City Council
| Rule | Derby City Council |
|---|---|
| Mandatory HMO licence (5+ people) | In force everywhere in England |
| Additional HMO licensing | None found |
| Selective licensing | None found |
| Article 4 direction for small HMOs | In part of the area Arboretum ward and parts of seven wards inside the ring road, since 3 May 2025 |
Checked October 2026 against Derby City Council's HMO licensing page. Schemes change, so we confirm the position for your address before any work starts.
Derby City Council's Article 4 direction covers Arboretum ward and parts of the wards inside the ring road, not Mickleover, so changing a family house here into a small HMO is usually permitted development. Seven or more occupants always needs planning permission. We found no additional licensing scheme in force in Derby City Council, so the mandatory licence for five or more people is the main one to plan for.
En-suite installation in Mickleover: what we do
We fit en-suite shower rooms in HMO bedrooms across Mickleover, starting with a check that each bedroom still meets its size standard once the en-suite is built. Councils take different views on whether en-suite floor area counts, so we confirm the local position first.
Older houses often have joists running the wrong way and soil stacks in fixed positions, so in Mickleover we check the drainage route under the floor before quoting. Every en-suite we fit in Derbyshire is finished with a ducted fan, certified electrics and fire stopping.
- Extract fan ducted to outside with overrun control
- Shower, toilet, basin and wipe-clean wall finish fitted
- Electrical work tested and certified
- Fire stopping where pipes pass through floors and walls
- Drainage route checked under the floor at survey
En-suite installation near Mickleover
- Littleover 1.5 miles
- Derby 3 miles
- Allestree 3.4 miles
- Chaddesden 4.8 miles
- Alvaston 5.1 miles
- Burton upon Trent 7.9 miles