You have the legal right to the landlord's name and address. If you ask the agent, they have to tell you. The landlord would normally be an individual or a company, but could conceivably be a trust, if so you would have the right to know a correspondence address of the trustees, so you could put your proposal to them.

hmmm interesting.. I'll have to check my contract and see if there's an address.

Experience tells me however, that the landlord has no interest in dealing with any of the letting side of things, hence I have to direct everything to the agent… frustrating..

can anyone give me a link where I can find out about the deposit protection scheme thingy?

I use mydeposits

eckinspain, try

Here

thanks toys.

and thanks mlc too – pmsl! I will have to save that.