Private Sector Housing

The Council is here to ensure safe and healthy homes for all private residents in Westminster. If you are a freeholder, leaseholder or private tenant, we can advise, support and, in some cases, take direct action where the health and safety of your living environment is threatened.

The Council seeks to improve and maintain standards through:

• Advice and enforcement of the required housing standards (view our enforcement policy here);
• Provision of housing grants to help maintain or improve conditions;
• Provision of measures to prevent burglaries and domestic violence and to help reduce the fear of crime;
• Facilitating and encouraging good management practices in the private rented sector;
• Advice, assistance and compulsory purchase to bring empty properties into use.

Contact Details

Westminster City Council, Department of Community Protection, Residential Environmental Health, Westminster City Hall, 4th Floor, 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QP

Tel : 020 7641 6161 Fax : 020 7641 8504