Lettance

com.lettancePublished by lettance.comOfficial publisherv1.4.1Updated Oct 30, 2026

Landlord rules for England by postcode: council licensing, the landlord register and the law, cited.

VerifiedStreamable HTTPWeb executableLocation & LifestyleData & AnalyticsBusiness & Commerce

Overview

AI-generated overview

Lettance answers what English private-landlord law requires and which council licence applies at a postcode, with cited sources.

What you can do
  • Look up a rented home by postcode: licence need, council schemes, landlord register window, flood zone and conservation area
  • Search and read landlord rules (gas safety, deposits, EPC, alarms, notices) with legal basis and guidance links
  • List a council's licensing schemes with wards, dates and fees
  • Build a dated 12-month plan of duties for a property
  • Compare 2 to 4 postcodes side by side on licensing, designations and area figures
  • Report ONS average rents and HM Land Registry median sale prices around a postcode
When to use it
Useful for landlords, letting agents or advisers in England who need to check licensing and legal duties for a specific postcode, plan upcoming compliance dates, or compare areas before renting out a property.
Requirements
Remote streamable HTTP endpoint at lettance.com; no packages, environment variables or headers declared. Coverage is 293 of 296 English councils; Calderdale, East Riding of Yorkshire and Worthing are not yet published.
Before you install
Read-only lookups, but the output is information rather than legal advice. A postcode is not a precise address, so street-level designations may still need checking on the council map; unknown coverage must not be read as no licence required. Figures are dated snapshots, not live guarantees.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Lettance in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/com.lettance%2Frules/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lettance": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://lettance.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

7

check_address

Rules for a rental address

Use when someone asks what applies to a rented home at a postcode in England. Returns whether a council property licence is needed for the household type, the council's licensing schemes, the planned landlord register window, flood zone and conservation area, each with its source, and councilPage, Lettance's page for that council. Read-only. England only; a council we have not researched yet says so instead of guessing. Information, not legal advice.

Parameterspostcoderequiredhousehold

search_rules

Search landlord rules

Use for general questions about what private landlords in England must do, such as gas safety, deposits, EPC ratings, smoke alarms or notices. Searches Lettance's catalogue of rules, each cited to legislation.gov.uk or GOV.UK, and returns matching rule ids with summaries. Use get_rule for one rule's full detail. Read-only.

Parametersqueryrequired

get_rule

Get a landlord rule

Use when you have a rule id from search_rules and need its full detail: the requirement, deadline, evidence to keep, penalty, legal basis and official guidance links. Read-only. Unknown ids return an error rather than a guess.

Parametersidrequired

council_licensing

Council licensing

Use when someone asks about a council's licensing schemes in England. Returns every scheme for the council with its wards, dates, fees and council sources. Pass a slug such as 'southwark' or a name such as 'Birmingham'. Read-only. A council we have not researched yet returns researched: false with its region and landlord register window.

Parameterscouncilrequired

plan_rental

Plan a rental's year

Use when a landlord in England asks what is due for a rented home and when, or wants a plan or calendar for it. Give the postcode and whatever the landlord knows: every other argument is optional. Returns each duty with its status, date, plain explanation and cited rules for the next 12 months, the questions still worth asking (as argument names), and links to an interactive plan and a calendar file. Statuses rely on the landlord's own answers, not documents. Read-only. Nothing is stored. Information, not legal advice.

Parametershas_gaslettingpostcoderequiredfurnishedhouseholdepc_expiryepc_ratinglicence_endrent_perioddeposit_takenholds_licencetenancy_start+9 more

compare_addresses

Compare rental addresses

Use when someone wants to compare 2 to 4 rented homes or areas in England by postcode. Returns each postcode's check_address answer and area market figures, plus a side-by-side table of licence need, landlord register window, flood zone, conservation areas, Article 4 directions, average local rent and median sale price. Every field names its source, licence and dates; anything the sources cannot settle is unknown, never no. Read-only. Each postcode counts as one request against the rate limit. Information, not legal advice.

Parametershouseholdpostcodesrequired

area_market

Local rents and sale prices

Use when someone asks about typical rents or house prices around a postcode in England. Returns the ONS average monthly private rent for the local authority (with bedroom breakdown and annual change) and the HM Land Registry median sale price and number of sales for the postcode district, from a dated snapshot. Each figure carries its source, release and obtained dates, period and the required attribution. Read-only. Area figures only, never a valuation of one home. Information, not financial advice.

Parameterspostcoderequired

Version history

4
  1. v1.4.1LatestOct 30, 2026
  2. v1.4.0Oct 26, 2026
  3. v1.2.0Oct 16, 2026
  4. v1.0.0Oct 14, 2026

Score

83% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts

    Declare a GitHub repository with a README, or serve resource_documentation in the OAuth protected-resource metadata.

  • LicenseNot applicable

    A hosted service is used under its provider's terms, so no license is expected here. This check is left out of the percentage.

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