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sector creating a failed STL bureacracy that's made visitors less safe whilst closing small indigenous businesses in #Edinburgh & now Scotland more widely. This is what happens when politics is driven by optics over measurable results. A shame on all their houses. #SaveSC (9/9)

professionally-run self-catering being axed, while a black market that comes nowhere near the authorities carries on as if the legislation never happened. Is this natural justice? Don't think so. The @scotgov has failed Scotland's self-catering & wider accommodation (8/9)

the low hanging fruit of licensed operators they can pursue and shut down by conflating a retrospective requirement for planning permission over something that planning used to take a very different view on in practice. We see licensed, health & safety obeying, (7/9)

the police. Therein lies the rub. Two of Scotland's biggest local authorities know perfectly well that demand for self-catering accommodation will not magically disappear. But these authorities are full of politicians uninteresed in tackling the hard problem when there is (6/9)

is policed by the city & now it seems that @glasgowcc is taking a leaf out of @edinburgh_CC's playbook and saying it's not our problem that there's now a black market of illegal properties skirting health & safety licence requirements from 2022. It is a criminal matter for (5/9)

crisis... it is the politics of distraction. Look over here! Worse, since the legislation came into effect there has been a blossoming illegal market. Properties on mainstream platforms brazenly market themselves, either with fake licence numbers or none at all. None of it (4/9)

in full-time self-catering operations in the capital with just 1400. This is simply too few to meet demand & explains the inexorable rise in prices for visitors across all type of accommodation. Meantime all this bureaucracy has done nothing to address the affordable homes (3/9)

units. We knew this was nonsense then but it grabbed media headlines with little question over its validity. Now, fortunately, courtesy of Council licensing we know for certain how many licences exist. If you believed the 12k from 2022 then we have seen an enormous drop (2/9)

Many organisations warned the @scotgov that there was plenty of potential to create unintended consequences with the introduction of Short Term Let legislation. This has now happened... in spades. @Edinburgh_cc, only a few years ago, claimed to have 12 to 14 thousand (1/9)