Liverpool City Council

Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. It consists of 90 councillors, three for each of the city’s 30 wards. It is a constituent council of Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.

Liverpool has been a town since 1207, when it was granted its first charter by King John. It has had a town corporation (the Corporation of Liverpool) since before the 19th century, and this was one of the corporations reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. The corporation created a police force in 1836.

Liverpool was granted city status in 1880. When local government was reformed in 1888 under the Local Government Act 1888 it was one of the cities to become a county borough, and thus independent of Lancashire. This situation persisted until 1974 with the Local Government Act 1972, when due to urban expansion and the accretion of a large metropolitan area, the city was made a metropolitan district of the metropolitan county of Merseyside. This saw the old corporation nomenclature abolished and the council reconstituted as Liverpool City Council.

(Information from Wikipedia on 2/9/2018)

Website: https://liverpool.gov.uk/
Additional licensing? No
Selective licensing? Yes
Selective licensing further information: Selective Licensing here
**Please note that if you rent a HMO then this is a mandatory scheme and therefore you must licence this property

Further details will be on the website as and when they are available.

Licensing charges: here
Application form: here
Additional information: *it should be noted that Liverpool city council received funding for MEES enforcement and compliance in October 2021. It is therefore even more crucial that landlords that landlord understand the MEES regulations. Government guidance can be found here
Contact telephone number: 01512333000
Contact email address: [email protected]

Additional information and links for Local Authority services

Homelessness Prevention Services: Housing options found here
Discretionary Housing Payment Policy: here
Disabled Facilities Grant: here
Green Improvement Support: here



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Page created: September 2, 2018
Last modified: March 7, 2024