Commercial property licence: to occupy business premises

About this document

This short agreement grants a licence to occupy rooms or space for business use.

That it doesn't create a lease will be the most important feature for most users. A lease creates an interest in land and gives the tenant additional rights - particularly with respect to stay in the property when the lease term expires (security of tenure). A licence agreement does not give the occupier the same rights to stay.

This agreement includes minimal and usual provisions in simple format, specifically to avoid it being interpreted as a lease under the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954. What is excluded is as critical as to what has been included.

The document might be used to:

• let spare office rooms, unused workshops or warehouse space to another business
• bring in another trader on a shop floor
• rent office space on a short term, flexible basis, for example as 'incubator' space for start-up businesses
• let a parcel of spare land to another business to store vehicles or machinery

Alternative documents

If you need a lease rather than a licence to occupy, we have a large collection of lease templates for all types of business property.

This document is not suitable for letting residential property. For that, see our standard residential property licence agreement.

Contents

• Property details
• Licence fee
• Licence fee inclusions such as services and rates
• Payment provisions: all payments the tenant might have to make
• Use allowed: restrictions on how the occupier can use the property