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ProperLet Protect monitors 317 UK councils around the clock. When your properties fall into new licensing zones, you'll know within 24 hours—not after the £30,000 fine.
317 councils with different schemes, boundaries, and schedules. New rules now let councils expand coverage borough-wide without government approval.
Civil penalties reach £30,000. Rent Repayment Orders can force you to return up to 24 months of rent. Combined exposure? Over £150,000 per property.
Councils can designate new licensing zones with minimal notice. By the time you find out through traditional channels, your properties may already be non-compliant.
You manage 200 properties across Greater Manchester. The council quietly extends a selective licensing boundary by three streets. Six of your properties are now unlicensed. By the time you discover it during an inspection, you're facing £180,000 in fines plus up to £200,000 in Rent Repayment Orders. Total exposure: nearly £400,000. How did you miss it? Because you're running a business, not spending your days checking council websites.
Getting protected takes minutes, not hours.
Import your properties in minutes using our CSV template or API integration. We'll map every address against our database of current licensing boundaries.
Our system tracks every selective licensing scheme across 317 UK councils. When boundaries shift or new schemes launch, we know within hours.
If any of your properties fall into a new licensing zone, you'll receive an alert within 24 hours with the council's requirements, deadlines, and next steps.
Nothing you don't.
We track every selective licensing scheme across 317 UK councils. When boundaries shift, you're the first to know.
If a council publishes new licensing requirements affecting your properties, you'll receive an alert within 24 hours.
Upload your entire portfolio once. We'll cross-reference every property against current and future licensing boundaries.
Every alert includes the council's application process, deadlines, fees, and requirements. No more digging through PDFs.
Add your team and landlords to stay coordinated. Everyone sees the same data, no duplicated effort.
Import properties from your existing CRM or property management system in seconds. Bulk uploads supported.
Access past licensing schemes to check if properties were ever unlicensed. Essential for due diligence on new acquisitions.
Generate compliance reports for landlords, auditors, or regulators. Prove you've been proactive, not reactive.
“We manage 180 properties across Greater Manchester. Before Protect, our compliance coordinator spent 15 hours a week checking council websites—and we still missed a boundary change in Salford. The £30,000 fine wasn't the worst part. It was explaining to the landlord why their property had been unlicensed for three months.”
“I run a 45-property portfolio across Leeds and Bradford. When Leeds expanded their licensing scheme last year, I found out from a tenant complaint. Protect would have told me 6 months earlier. That peace of mind? Worth every penny.”
“We needed audit-ready proof that we're monitoring compliance proactively—not just reacting to council letters. Protect gives our risk team a dashboard they can actually present to the board.”
We maintain direct feeds from council planning portals, licensing registers, and consultation documents. Our team verifies every boundary change before it triggers alerts. You're not relying on web scraping—this is human-verified data.
In December 2024, the government removed restrictions that limited how much of their area councils could license. Councils can now implement borough-wide schemes without ministerial approval. We're tracking multiple councils preparing to expand significantly in 2025.
Protect identifies current licensing requirements, including properties that may already be non-compliant. You'll receive immediate visibility into your risk exposure so you can prioritise retrospective applications and mitigate fines.
Absolutely. Add properties individually or upload bulk CSVs anytime. New properties are checked against all current licensing boundaries within minutes.
Protect currently focuses on selective licensing schemes (which apply to standard ASTs and are harder to track). HMO licensing is more standardised. We're exploring HMO boundary monitoring for a future release.
Some councils still use paper maps or PDFs without geographic data. Our team manually digitises these boundaries so you don't have to. If we can't access a council's data, we'll contact them directly.
Our guarantee is 24 hours from when a council publishes new licensing information. In practice, most alerts are sent within 6-12 hours. If it's published on a council website, we'll know about it before your morning coffee.
Upload your properties, activate monitoring, and never worry about missing a licensing boundary again.
One missed licensing boundary can cost £150,000+ in combined exposure (£30k fines + rent repayment orders). Protect costs less than a tenancy renewal fee.