Shouldn’t be “considered”, should be fucking national policy.
A *few* short-term lets here and there is probably no bad thing, but too many is a disaster.
The whole of Scotland should be protected by legislation by not allowing STLs to choke the life out of areas.
Love it Fife are worried because between 10% and 18% of their coastal homes are STLS. Try living in the remote rural North West where in some places we’re sitting at over 60% of your coastal villages homes being either second homes or short term lets and we wonder why our young people are leaving and business can’t find staff.
All that’s needed is a progressive council to recognise that housing for key workers is essential and return to a house building model where the folk that make our infrastructure tick are housed and expand on the definition. In rural areas where a high preponderance of jobs are in hospitality, then chefs, waiters, cleaners etcetera have to be recognised as key workers for the local economy.
The solution as always is home building and in rural areas it has to be community led housing developments, where there is local knowledge on requirements and local resources and workers to be used.
Post War the UK government tackled the housing crisis with a massive house building programme, for sensible rather than patriotic reasons nobody wanted trained soldiers coming home and having to live in poverty and squalor, so successive governments built homes across the country. We’re at that stage now where Westminster, Cardiff and Edinburgh need to up their game and raise funds and amend legislation to tackle the crisis.
I spent the summer working in Arran. The locals all say the same thing,there’s no houses for rent because the majority are getting bought up as second homes for folk that want a holiday place for themselves or as STL.
There’s a lot of resentment on the island as the locals and their kids are priced out of the housing market. Many can’t see themselves renting an affordable house nevermind buying one.
Kincraig near Aviemore recently built loads of houses, all around the £400k mark, unaffordable by most. Newtonmore is building literally hundreds of houses on its outskirts and the builders have ignored the planning rules to build the affordable housing first.
Putting 8% Ads might help, putting in control zones might help, but building affordable rented social housing will help. The government needs to stop pissing about and just build houses for people.
I don’t want my taxes going to developers and speculators wanting to make money off of developments, I want it to go to decent council owned rental homes for people to live in.
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Shouldn’t be “considered”, should be fucking national policy.
A *few* short-term lets here and there is probably no bad thing, but too many is a disaster.
The whole of Scotland should be protected by legislation by not allowing STLs to choke the life out of areas.
Love it Fife are worried because between 10% and 18% of their coastal homes are STLS. Try living in the remote rural North West where in some places we’re sitting at over 60% of your coastal villages homes being either second homes or short term lets and we wonder why our young people are leaving and business can’t find staff.
All that’s needed is a progressive council to recognise that housing for key workers is essential and return to a house building model where the folk that make our infrastructure tick are housed and expand on the definition. In rural areas where a high preponderance of jobs are in hospitality, then chefs, waiters, cleaners etcetera have to be recognised as key workers for the local economy.
The solution as always is home building and in rural areas it has to be community led housing developments, where there is local knowledge on requirements and local resources and workers to be used.
Post War the UK government tackled the housing crisis with a massive house building programme, for sensible rather than patriotic reasons nobody wanted trained soldiers coming home and having to live in poverty and squalor, so successive governments built homes across the country. We’re at that stage now where Westminster, Cardiff and Edinburgh need to up their game and raise funds and amend legislation to tackle the crisis.
I spent the summer working in Arran. The locals all say the same thing,there’s no houses for rent because the majority are getting bought up as second homes for folk that want a holiday place for themselves or as STL.
There’s a lot of resentment on the island as the locals and their kids are priced out of the housing market. Many can’t see themselves renting an affordable house nevermind buying one.
Kincraig near Aviemore recently built loads of houses, all around the £400k mark, unaffordable by most. Newtonmore is building literally hundreds of houses on its outskirts and the builders have ignored the planning rules to build the affordable housing first.
Putting 8% Ads might help, putting in control zones might help, but building affordable rented social housing will help. The government needs to stop pissing about and just build houses for people.
I don’t want my taxes going to developers and speculators wanting to make money off of developments, I want it to go to decent council owned rental homes for people to live in.
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