FOI Request - Short Term Let Licensing and Planning
Request 101003458323
Please could you provide me with information in respect of the following questions at 1st January 2024:
1. How many short-term let licence (STL) applications have you received in total and then broken down by: (a) home sharing; (b) home letting; (c) home sharing and home letting and (d) secondary letting in each Council Ward?
2. How many short-term let licences have been: (a) granted (b) granted with additional conditions over and above the mandatory conditions (c) withdrawn and (d) rejected?
3. What are the reasons for licence applications being: (a) withdrawn and (b) rejected
4. What short-term let licensing fees have been collected so far?
5. In GBP, how much has been spent on enforcement of STL Licensing since 1st September 2023?
6. In respect of new STL regulations, how many planning applications have been received in total broken down by: (a) planning permission for change of use to STL (b) Certificate of Lawfulness under ten years and (c) Certificate of Lawfulness over ten years?
7. How many planning / certificate of lawfulness applications have been: (a) granted (b) withdrawn and (c) rejected?
8. What fees have been collected in respect of short-term let planning applications since October 2022?
Response 31-01-2024
1. As at 1 January 2024 - 679
(a) home sharing - 36
(b) home letting - 70
(c) home sharing and home letting - 34
(d) secondary letting - 539
Buckie – 45
(a) Home sharing - 0
(b) Home letting - 3
(c) Home sharing and home letting - 1
(d) Secondary letting - 41
Elgin City North – 32
(a) Home sharing - 3
(b) Home letting - 2
(c) Home sharing and home letting - 4
(d) Secondary letting - 23
Elgin City South – 37
(a) Home sharing - 4
(b) Home letting – 5
(c) Home sharing and home letting – 2
(d) Secondary letting – 26
Fochabers Lhanbryde - 47
(a) Home sharing - 1
(b) Home letting - 7
(c) Home sharing and home letting - 0
(d) Secondary letting - 39
Forres - 96
(a) Home sharing - 7
(b) Home letting – 8
(c) Home sharing and home letting - 11
(d) Secondary letting - 70
Heldon and Laich - 114
(a) Home sharing - 4
(b) Home letting - 17
(c) Home sharing and home letting - 4
(d) Secondary letting - 89
Keith and Cullen - 113
(a) Home sharing - 5
(b) Home letting - 7
(c) Home sharing and home letting - 1
(d) Secondary letting - 100
Speyside Glenlivet - 195
(a) Home sharing - 12
(b) Home letting - 21
(c) Home sharing and home letting - 11
(d) Secondary letting - 151
2.
(a) granted - 62
(b) nil
(c) 10
(d) 0
3. (a) Information not held therefore exemption under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, information not held, applies.
(b) n/a
4. As at 1 January 2024 - £331, 177.00
5. £0
6. 27 planning applications submitted, 7 certificates (3 retrospective)
7. Planning applications, 22 approved (10 proposed and 11 retrospective), 0 refused, 1 withdrawn and 4 pending; Certificates - 4 withdrawn, 2 approved, 0 refused, 1 pending)
8. £25,466.00