INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

list_council_schemes

Lists a council’s licensing schemes from HouseFile’s records: in force, starting soon, proposed, and ended in the last 12 months, each with its area, dates, fee, source link and last verified date.

housefile.appnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://www.housefile.app/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for list_council_schemes and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

housefile.app

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.housefile-licensing]
url = "https://www.housefile.app/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "housefile-licensing": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.housefile.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: housefile-licensing
Remote MCP URL: https://www.housefile.app/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "housefile-licensing": {
      "url": "https://www.housefile.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "housefile-licensing": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.housefile.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "housefile-licensing",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://www.housefile.app/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

check_property_licensing — Looks up a postcode in England in HouseFile’s records of council licensing schemes and returns each scheme in force there, with its dates, fee, source link and the date the records were last verified, plus the national HMO rule.
upcoming_licensing_changes — What’s coming: schemes proposed or starting soon, and recent changes to schemes in HouseFile’s records (started, ended, fee or area changed), newest first.
licensing_coverage — Which councils HouseFile’s records cover, with the number of published schemes for each and when they were last verified.