Edinburgh will become the first British city to make Airbnb hosts apply for planning permission to try to clamp down on anti-social behaviour and housing shortages. Councillors in the Scottish capital yesterday passed plans meaning landlords will have to ask the town hall before putting up homes as short-term lets. The move left homeowners furious as they claimed they were acting as scapegoats for the government's poor housing policy. But campaigners supported it after saying the city centre has been 'hollowed out' by properties up for short-term rentals. The city's chief planning officer David Givan called for the policy to cover all of it to stop losing short-term lets in certain areas.

Source: Daily Mail August 13, 2021 06:02 UTC