On Wednesday 24th October a Committee of MSPs voted to bring "short term letting" of dwelling houses under the control of the Planning Regime.
There are additional proposals by a number of MSPs to introduce a separate licensing regime for short term property lets and draft legislation has been given to the Scottish Ministers on the subject.
At this point there is still a lot of detail to be worked through on how these additional controls would work in practice.
For example would letting a property for less than three months require a licence and what properties would be caught by a licensing regime (e.g. Student Housing)?
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