FOI Request - Short Term Let Licences

Request 101003328853

1.  How many short-term let license applications has your local authority received between October 2022 and May 2023?

2.  How many short-term let licenses been approved by your local authority between October 2022 and May 2023?

3.  Could you break down the number of short-term let license applications received between October 2022 and May 2023 by the four types of short-term let licences (‘home sharing,’ ‘home letting,’ ‘secondary letting,’ and ‘home letting and home sharing.’).

4.  Could you also break down the number of short-term let licenses approved between October 2022 and May 2023 by the four types of short-term let licences (‘home sharing,’ ‘home letting,’ ‘secondary letting,’ and ‘home letting and home sharing.’).

5.  How much money has your local authority collected in fees from issuing short-term let licenses since October 2022 to May 2023?

6.  How much money has your local authority spent in administrating or processing applications for short-term let licences (or any other activity related to the processing of applications for short-term let licenses which has incurred a cost for your local authority) since October 2022 to May 2023?

7.  Please provide the two figures for the same time period (October 2022 to May 2023), both the income generated from short-term let licence application, and the cost of administrating, processing, and granting the applications.

8.  What is the average length of time it takes to approve a short-term let license application received by your local council? Please provide this information for applications received between October 2022 and May 2023.

Response 15-06-2023

1.-4. The Council publishes a register of short-term let licences.  This information is therefore exempt under section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, information otherwise accessible.  For ease of reference, here is a link to the webpage: http://www.moray.gov.uk/downloads/file148824.xlsx

5. £45,540 to the end of May 2023

6. The information is not available at this time.  The information has yet to be calculated. It will then be published as part of the overall review of civic fees and financial performance reports that re produced annually.  In this case we expect a report in the September meeting of the Licensing Committee so it is intended this will be published in the next few months. It is therefore exempt under section 27(1) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002- Information intended for future publication.

7. Please see answers to question 5. and 6. above.

8. Please refer to the register of short-term let licences linked above.