Renting out a room

Our tenants can offer a room in their home to lodgers, once we have given our permission in writing.

You’ll be allowed to take in a lodger as long as they won’t cause your home to become overcrowded, and you are not sub-letting the whole of your property.

Taking in a lodger can be helpful if you:

• are paying the spare room subsidy (sometimes called the bedroom tax) and do not want to move out
• want to downsize but have not found a suitable home
• live alone and would like some company
• want the added security of having someone else at home
• have a spare room after grown-up children have left or moved away for full-time education