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@MartininOban @SaveSCScotland @theSpurtle They also close self-catering businnesses that do not meet the spec for residential standards. Fortune Gumbo @DPEAScotland dismissed a 24sqm flat stating: unsuitable for long-term & unsuitable for short-term rent 🙆 - decisions made using old Google maps from his London base! 😡

ASSC Chief Executive Fiona Campbell MBE was on MFR this morning responding to the proposed new STL control areas across Inverness & the Highlands. “This is not the silver bullet to fix the housing crisis, and to suggest so is disingenuous at best.” With no clear evidence existing control areas are working, expanding them risks damaging rural businesses, jobs & communities. Listen from 45 mins ⬇️ hellorayo.co.uk/mfr/shows/boog… @FionaCampbell74 @SaveSCScotland @st_alliance

The Association of Scotland's Self Caterers (ASSC) said the proposals represented "a direct attack on lawful tourism businesses across the Highlands" and vowed that any unlawful implementation would be challenged in court. The ASSC said the proposals risk devastating already fragile rural economies, reducing visitor accommodation capacity, undermining tourism investment, and threatening livelihoods across the Highlands. It said self-catering contributes around £200m per annum to the Highland economy, supporting jobs, local supply chains, and rural sustainability. The ASSC is urging businesses, residents, and stakeholders across the Highlands to engage fully with the consultations and oppose proposals which it says are "economically dangerous, legally questionable, and entirely unsupported by evidence". @FionaCampbell74 @HighlandCouncil @st_alliance @SaveSCScotland @BandBassoc

“It is astonishing that Highland Council appears prepared to ignore a Court of Session ruling and continue promoting an interpretation that has already been challenged and defeated in court. If the Council persists with an unlawful approach, it should be under no illusion that further legal action will follow.” assc.co.uk/short-term-let… @FionaCampbell74 @SaveSCScotland @HighlandCouncil @st_alliance

Fiona Campbell MBE, Chief Executive of @ASSCnews, said: “There is zero evidence that Planning Control Areas increase affordable housing, reduce rents, or solve the housing crisis. None. "@HighlandCouncil is attempting to sell the public a fantasy through this sham consultation while knowingly risking enormous damage to local tourism economies and small businesses. "This is not evidence-based policymaking, it is political theatre." The ASSC also accused Highland Council of disregarding established legal precedent. "Despite repeated public assurances from councillors that existing operators have nothing to fear, the ASSC has spoken directly with officials who remain adamant that any secondary let within a control area will require planning permission because of mandatory Condition 13 attached to short-term let licensing." This position flies directly in the face of the landmark Muirhead judicial review from 2023, which was successfully argued before the Court of Session. If Highland Council requires 24,000 new homes across the Highlands by 2034, repurpose the 7,500 economically impotent empty homes and build some new ones. Don't damage a sector that represents £200m to the local economy! heraldscotland.com/news/26099604.… #Scapegoating #Disingenuous #Unlawful #JudicialReview #LegalAction @H_F_S @st_alliance @scothospgroup @SaveSCScotland

@HighlandCouncil threatened with legal action if proposed Inverness short-term let control area goes ahead... Short-term let control areas labelled as ‘economically reckless policymaking’ “a direct attack on lawful tourism businesses across the Highlands.” The trade body vows that “any unlawful implementation will be challenged in court.” The ASSC is accusing the Highland Council of disregarding established legal precedent, citing the “Muirhead judicial review from 2023”. pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/invern… @FionaCampbell74 @SaveSCScotland @st_alliance @BandBassoc

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@SaveSCScotland @theSpurtle I have no objection to purpose-built holiday accommodation built to the standards required for these. It's where accommodation which meets the spec for permanent residence is removed from that market for short-term use.

ISSUE 361.—Published today. Warning: Contains traces of hope. broughtonspurtle.org.uk/sites/default/… #Edinburgh #hyperlocal #news

@MartininOban @SaveSCScotland @theSpurtle 250,000 Scots are waiting on social housing. Repurposing self catering isnt going to fix that. Its more social housing thats required. However that costs councils and governments money... and that's the real issue.

@SaveSCScotland @theSpurtle Enabled by the Greens, hilarious.

@theSpurtle Disruptive STLs can have their licences removed like a taxi or a pub that breaks the conditions of the licence. The planning process is the problem and become both a money printing process for CEC and a sledgehammer to close down well run STL's.

@theSpurtle This report shows no understanding whatsoever of what's actually going on on the ground. Locally run self-caterers are seeing livelihoods axed as brownfield is given over to foreign investment for aparthotels & student accommodation at every opportunity. Own goal policy. #SaveSC

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@theSpurtle shows a poor grasp of what's actually going on on the ground. Locally run self-caterers are seeing their livelihoods axed as brownfield's given to foreign investors for aparthotels & student accommodation at every opportunity. Own goal policy. #SaveSC @ASSCnews

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We have previously been concerned about the power of the short-term let lobby to be able to influence Edinburgh Council and the Scottish Government to create these kind of loopholes that undermine the licensing and planning process that protect residents.

Each summer there's an explosion of dodgy property going on the market through social media. The authorities ignore what's under their nose while axing well-run licenced self caterers. This is the reality of licencing. It is a paper tiger & farce in full flow. #SaveSC

Almost 1 in 5 properties go to overseas investors in the capital. At the same time @Edinburgh_CC axes full-time local self catering businesses making up less than 1% of all city housing. Don't forget a black market they created & don't police. #SaveSC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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@PLACEEdinburgh Activists have done a fantastic job of encouraging the expansion of global hotel groups and large scale 'aparthotels' in the city by their campaign against local small scale businesses... the majority run by females for side income.