One postcode. An instant verdict against national law and your council's actual licensing schemes — not a generic checklist.
England only. Information, not legal advice — this tool applies published UK rules to the answers you give about your property.
See a sample report →Manchester M14 · fictional property · nothing gated7 of 10 scored obligations in place · 2 further readiness items tracked
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The civil penalty a single EICR or unlicensed-HMO breach can reach, per property, under current legislation.
Figures above are taken from our published sample report for a fictional property.
Other tools tell you the national rules. This one also tells you what your council is actually doing — and when we last checked.
Gas safety, EICR, EPC, deposit protection, alarms, right to rent, HMO and council licensing, and what the Renters' Rights Act now demands — one check.
Council schemes change monthly. Every council fact we show carries its research date, a confidence flag, and a link to the source — so you can see exactly how current it is.
We track each English council's selective and additional licensing schemes individually — the register the government never built.
The £9 Full Compliance Audit turns your result into a dated, prioritised 30/60/90-day action plan for one property. No subscription required.
That alone identifies your council and pulls its live selective and additional licensing schemes, with the date each was researched.
Short questions on certificates, deposit, alarms and tenancy paperwork. Answer as much or as little as you like — no account, no card.
Your score, your biggest gaps and your council's licensing headlines, immediately. The itemised £9 audit is optional, after you have seen the result.
Every obligation below is implemented in the engine today, and every finding you get cites the Act, SI or regulation behind it. Nothing on this list is aspirational.
Reg. 36 — annual CP12 from a Gas Safe registered engineer, served on the tenant.
Five-yearly EICR, with C1/C2/FI remedial work completed.
MEES minimum E rating, plus the EPB Regulations 2012 duty to give the tenant a copy.
Deposit protected in an approved scheme within 30 days, and s.213(5)–(6) prescribed information served.
The current 'How to Rent' guide served at tenancy start or renewal.
As amended 2022 — per-storey smoke alarms and CO alarms in fixed-combustion-appliance rooms.
Right to Rent checks recorded for every adult occupier before the tenancy starts.
Mandatory HMO licensing at 5+ occupants forming 2+ households.
With HSE ACOP L8 — a recorded legionella risk assessment for the water system.
PRS Database registration readiness (phase 1 in force 1 May 2026), and s.60 Awaab's Law readiness.
Each English council's own designations, researched individually with start/end dates, fees, designated areas, sources and a confidence flag.
The sample report is the real output of the £9 Full Compliance Audit, run on a fictional Manchester property: every gap in priority order with the law behind it, the council's licensing position with sources and research dates, and a dated 30/60/90-day plan.
No. This is an information tool that applies published UK rules to the answers you give about your property. It is not legal advice and does not create a solicitor–client relationship.
For anything contested — eviction, disrepair disputes, a licensing prosecution — talk to a qualified solicitor. We tell you what the rules say and where they come from; we do not tell you what to do about a dispute.
Not for the free check. Enter a postcode, answer as much or as little as you like, and you get your verdict, your score and your council's licensing headlines immediately — no sign-up, no card.
An email address unlocks the full itemised gap report (every obligation with the law, your exposure and the fix). An account only exists if you choose the ongoing tracker.
National obligations are kept in a hand-maintained ruleset, each one citing its Act or SI directly — including the Renters' Rights Act 2025 changes already in force.
Council licensing is the harder half. Selective and additional licensing schemes change on a weeks-to-months cadence, so every council record carries the date it was researched and a confidence flag, and both are shown to you on screen. If a fact is old or we could not verify it, you see that rather than a confident guess.
Honestly, not always — and we say so rather than bluff. Many council schemes cover designated areas only, and the legally authoritative boundaries live in the council's own designation maps, street by street.
What you get is every live scheme for your council, its dates, its fee where published, the areas it names, and a direct link to the council page to confirm your exact address. Where coverage is partial, the report says so explicitly.
Every finding shows the law it comes from and a link to the source, specifically so you can check our working rather than take it on trust. Council records additionally show the research date and confidence.
If a council has changed its position since we last researched it, the council's own page wins — tell us and the record gets corrected in the dataset.
It is a one-off £9 payment, not a subscription. You get the full itemised report for one property: every gap in priority order with the exact law, the real exposure and the fix, your council's licensing position with sources and research dates, and a dated 30/60/90-day action plan you can print and file.
You can see exactly what that looks like before paying — the sample report is the real thing, for a made-up address.
No — England only. Selective and additional licensing under the Housing Act 2004 is an England regime; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run separate national landlord-registration systems with different duties. Entering a non-English postcode will tell you that rather than guess.
Two minutes now, versus a civil penalty that can reach £30,000 per breach later. Run the free check and know exactly where you stand.