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UK HMO feasibility,
in five seconds.

Enter any UK postcode. We’ll identify the local authority, surface the applicable HMO licensing scheme, flag Article 4 restrictions, and tell you the minimum room standards you’ll be held to.

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What you’ll get back

Council match, rules, and a room-by-room floor plan check.

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Council match

Postcode → local authority (LAD code) via Postcodes.io, then matched against our HMO policy library.

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Licensing & Article 4

Mandatory, additional and selective licensing schemes, plus Article 4 directions affecting C3 → C4 permitted development.

03

Floor plan analysis

Upload a PNG/JPG/PDF plan. System measures every room and tells you which bedrooms meet the council's minima.

v0 covers 11 priority councils (Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield, Bristol, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Southampton, Fareham). Outside these, we still resolve the council, but you’ll need to verify the local rules manually until we add it to the dataset.