diff --git a/Jakefile.js b/Jakefile.js
index 2640f8a1225..14bf047cf21 100644
--- a/Jakefile.js
+++ b/Jakefile.js
@@ -859,6 +859,7 @@ var tslintRuleDir = "scripts/tslint";
 var tslintRules = ([
     "nextLineRule",
     "noNullRule",
+    "preferConstRule",
     "booleanTriviaRule",
     "typeOperatorSpacingRule"
 ]);
diff --git a/scripts/tslint/preferConstRule.ts b/scripts/tslint/preferConstRule.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c2592c90c9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/tslint/preferConstRule.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,235 @@
+/// <reference path="../../node_modules/tslint/typings/typescriptServices.d.ts" />
+/// <reference path="../../node_modules/tslint/lib/tslint.d.ts" />
+
+
+export class Rule extends Lint.Rules.AbstractRule {
+    public static FAILURE_STRING_FACTORY = (identifier: string) => `Identifier '${identifier}' never appears on the LHS of an assignment - use const instead of let for its declaration.`;
+
+    public apply(sourceFile: ts.SourceFile): Lint.RuleFailure[] {
+        return this.applyWithWalker(new PreferConstWalker(sourceFile, this.getOptions()));
+    }
+}
+
+function isBindingPattern(node: ts.Node): node is ts.BindingPattern {
+    return !!node && (node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ArrayBindingPattern || node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ObjectBindingPattern);
+}
+
+function walkUpBindingElementsAndPatterns(node: ts.Node): ts.Node {
+    while (node && (node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.BindingElement || isBindingPattern(node))) {
+        node = node.parent;
+    }
+
+    return node;
+}
+
+function getCombinedNodeFlags(node: ts.Node): ts.NodeFlags {
+    node = walkUpBindingElementsAndPatterns(node);
+
+    let flags = node.flags;
+    if (node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.VariableDeclaration) {
+        node = node.parent;
+    }
+
+    if (node && node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.VariableDeclarationList) {
+        flags |= node.flags;
+        node = node.parent;
+    }
+
+    if (node && node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.VariableStatement) {
+        flags |= node.flags;
+    }
+
+    return flags;
+}
+
+function isLet(node: ts.Node) {
+    return !!(getCombinedNodeFlags(node) & ts.NodeFlags.Let);
+}
+
+function isExported(node: ts.Node) {
+    return !!(getCombinedNodeFlags(node) & ts.NodeFlags.Export);
+}
+
+function isAssignmentOperator(token: ts.SyntaxKind): boolean {
+    return token >= ts.SyntaxKind.FirstAssignment && token <= ts.SyntaxKind.LastAssignment;
+}
+
+function isBindingLiteralExpression(node: ts.Node): node is (ts.ArrayLiteralExpression | ts.ObjectLiteralExpression) {
+    return (!!node) && (node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ObjectLiteralExpression || node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ArrayLiteralExpression);
+}
+
+interface DeclarationUsages {
+    declaration: ts.VariableDeclaration;
+    usages: number;
+}
+
+class PreferConstWalker extends Lint.RuleWalker {
+    private inScopeLetDeclarations: ts.Map<DeclarationUsages>[] = [];
+    private errors: Lint.RuleFailure[] = [];
+    private markAssignment(identifier: ts.Identifier) {
+        const name = identifier.text;
+        for (var i = this.inScopeLetDeclarations.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+            var declarations = this.inScopeLetDeclarations[i];
+            if (declarations[name]) {
+                declarations[name].usages++;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    visitSourceFile(node: ts.SourceFile) {
+        super.visitSourceFile(node);
+        // Sort errors by position because tslint doesn't
+        this.errors.sort((a, b) => a.getStartPosition().getPosition() - b.getStartPosition().getPosition()).forEach(e => this.addFailure(e));
+    }
+
+    visitBinaryExpression(node: ts.BinaryExpression) {
+        if (isAssignmentOperator(node.operatorToken.kind)) {
+            this.visitLHSExpressions(node.left);
+        }
+        super.visitBinaryExpression(node);
+    }
+
+    private visitLHSExpressions(node: ts.Expression) {
+        while (node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ParenthesizedExpression) {
+            node = (node as ts.ParenthesizedExpression).expression;
+        }
+        if (node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.Identifier) {
+            this.markAssignment(node as ts.Identifier);
+        }
+        else if (isBindingLiteralExpression(node)) {
+            this.visitBindingLiteralExpression(node as (ts.ArrayLiteralExpression | ts.ObjectLiteralExpression));
+        }
+    }
+    
+    private visitBindingLiteralExpression(node: ts.ArrayLiteralExpression | ts.ObjectLiteralExpression) {
+        if (node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ObjectLiteralExpression) {
+            const pattern = node as ts.ObjectLiteralExpression;
+            for (let i = 0; i < pattern.properties.length; i++) {
+                const element = pattern.properties[i];
+                if (element.name.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.Identifier) {
+                    this.markAssignment(element.name as ts.Identifier)
+                }
+                else if (isBindingPattern(element.name)) {
+                    this.visitBindingPatternIdentifiers(element.name as ts.BindingPattern);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        else if (node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ArrayLiteralExpression) {
+            const pattern = node as ts.ArrayLiteralExpression;
+            for (let i = 0; i < pattern.elements.length; i++) {
+                const element = pattern.elements[i];
+                this.visitLHSExpressions(element);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private visitBindingPatternIdentifiers(pattern: ts.BindingPattern) {
+        for (let i = 0; i < pattern.elements.length; i++) {
+            const element = pattern.elements[i];
+            if (element.name.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.Identifier) {
+                this.markAssignment(element.name as ts.Identifier);
+            }
+            else {
+                this.visitBindingPatternIdentifiers(element.name as ts.BindingPattern);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    visitPrefixUnaryExpression(node: ts.PrefixUnaryExpression) {
+        this.visitAnyUnaryExpression(node);
+        super.visitPrefixUnaryExpression(node);
+    }
+
+    visitPostfixUnaryExpression(node: ts.PostfixUnaryExpression) {
+        this.visitAnyUnaryExpression(node);
+        super.visitPostfixUnaryExpression(node);
+    }
+
+    private visitAnyUnaryExpression(node: ts.PrefixUnaryExpression | ts.PostfixUnaryExpression) {
+        if (node.operator === ts.SyntaxKind.PlusPlusToken || node.operator === ts.SyntaxKind.MinusMinusToken) {
+            this.visitLHSExpressions(node.operand);
+        }
+    }
+
+    visitModuleDeclaration(node: ts.ModuleDeclaration) {
+        if (node.body.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ModuleBlock) {
+            // For some reason module blocks are left out of the visit block traversal
+            this.visitBlock(node.body as ts.ModuleBlock);
+        }
+        super.visitModuleDeclaration(node);
+    }
+
+    visitForOfStatement(node: ts.ForOfStatement) {
+        this.visitAnyForStatement(node);
+        super.visitForOfStatement(node);
+        this.popDeclarations();
+    }
+
+    visitForInStatement(node: ts.ForInStatement) {
+        this.visitAnyForStatement(node);
+        super.visitForInStatement(node);
+        this.popDeclarations();
+    }
+
+    private visitAnyForStatement(node: ts.ForOfStatement | ts.ForInStatement) {
+        let names: ts.Map<DeclarationUsages> = {};
+        if (isLet(node.initializer)) {
+            if (node.initializer.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.VariableDeclarationList) {
+                this.collectLetIdentifiers(node.initializer as ts.VariableDeclarationList, names);
+            }
+        }
+        this.inScopeLetDeclarations.push(names);
+    }
+
+    private popDeclarations() {
+        const completed = this.inScopeLetDeclarations.pop();
+        for (const name in completed) {
+            if (Object.hasOwnProperty.call(completed, name)) {
+                const element = completed[name];
+                if (element.usages === 0) {
+                    this.errors.push(this.createFailure(element.declaration.getStart(this.getSourceFile()), element.declaration.getWidth(this.getSourceFile()), Rule.FAILURE_STRING_FACTORY(name)));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    visitBlock(node: ts.Block) {
+        let names: ts.Map<DeclarationUsages> = {};
+        for (let i = 0; i < node.statements.length; i++) {
+            const statement = node.statements[i];
+            if (statement.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.VariableStatement) {
+                this.collectLetIdentifiers((statement as ts.VariableStatement).declarationList, names);
+            }
+        }
+        this.inScopeLetDeclarations.push(names);
+        super.visitBlock(node);
+        this.popDeclarations();
+    }
+
+    private collectLetIdentifiers(list: ts.VariableDeclarationList, ret: ts.Map<DeclarationUsages>) {
+        const children = list.declarations;
+        for (let i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
+            const node = children[i];
+            if (isLet(node) && !isExported(node)) {
+                this.collectNameIdentifiers(node, node.name, ret);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private collectNameIdentifiers(value: ts.VariableDeclaration, node: ts.Identifier | ts.BindingPattern, table: ts.Map<DeclarationUsages>) {
+        if (node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.Identifier) {
+            table[(node as ts.Identifier).text] = {declaration: value, usages: 0};
+        }
+        else {
+            this.collectBindingPatternIdentifiers(value, node as ts.BindingPattern, table);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private collectBindingPatternIdentifiers(value: ts.VariableDeclaration, pattern: ts.BindingPattern, table: ts.Map<DeclarationUsages>) {
+        for (let i = 0; i < pattern.elements.length; i++) {
+            const element = pattern.elements[i];
+            this.collectNameIdentifiers(value, element.name, table);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tslint.json b/tslint.json
index db10daa3fcc..3cafdbfd39c 100644
--- a/tslint.json
+++ b/tslint.json
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
         "no-inferrable-types": true,
         "no-null": true,
         "boolean-trivia": true,
-        "type-operator-spacing": true
+        "type-operator-spacing": true,
+        "prefer-const": true
   }
 }