LandBNG MCP Server

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answering

LandBNG is answering right now. Last checked 5 min ago. It exposes 4 tools.

BNG income and cost estimates for land in England, GB grid headroom and planning history

Uptime history 13 days of history

13 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

180 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 2

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 27 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

27 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten check_grid_connection, estimate_bng_income

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check LandBNG every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 5 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add landbng --transport http https://landbng.uk/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://landbng.uk/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.landbng]
url = "https://landbng.uk/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "landbng": {
      "url": "https://landbng.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "landbng": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://landbng.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

estimate

estimate_bng_cost

Estimate the cost of meeting England's mandatory 10% biodiversity net gain requirement for a development scheme of `scheme_ha` hectares, across 3 procurement routes (off-site habitat bank mosaic, off-site grassland/ heathland, statutory biodiversity credits, priced per unit at two Defra credits per unit), and the units to buy from a gain site in the same, a neighbouring or a further authority (spatial risk multiplier 1.0 / 0.75 / 0.5, with this point's authority names). land_type: brownfield / arable / improved / semi_improved / mixed. England only. Free, no key.

estimate_bng_income

Estimate 30-year lump-sum BNG income (LOW/MID/HIGH) for dedicating `area_ha` hectares of an England parcel to biodiversity net gain habitat creation, from LandBNG planning assumptions per habitat capped at the Defra statutory credit price; local factors (flood zone, SSSI, Green Belt, Ancient Woodland, AONB, Agricultural Land Class, nearby NSIP projects and how many fall under mandatory BNG) are listed, not priced. England only. Free, no key.

grid

check_grid_connection

Check nearest UK electricity Distribution Network Operator (DNO) grid connection headroom for a location: generation/demand headroom (MW/MVA), RAG status, voltage, and a combined BNG+grid siting signal. Covers all of Great Britain (England/Scotland/Wales), not just England. Free, no key.

planning

check_planning_history

Find planning applications near a UK location, via UK PlanIt's public aggregator (over 400 UK planning authorities). Free, no key. radius_km must be between 0.1 and 5.0.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://landbng.uk/mcp	streamable-http	answering	147 ms	5 min ago

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LandBNG — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can LandBNG do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_grid_connection, check_planning_history, estimate_bng_cost, estimate_bng_income. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is LandBNG working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 180 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect LandBNG?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does LandBNG need an API key?

No. LandBNG completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is LandBNG?

It answers our handshake in 180 ms on average, which is faster than 75% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.