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Save Self Catering Save Self Catering is for decent, hard working owners, agents, guests, housekeepers etc involved professionally in self catering in Scotland.

We ask that the Scottish Government uses an SSI to delay their STL Legislation until 1st October 2026. Save Self Catering represents the community of decent, hard working owners, agents, guests, housekeepers and other trades involved professionally in self catering in Scotland. We make a crucial contribution to the local and wider economy. And yet our livelihoods are currently under threat. We ask

that the Scottish Government uses an SSI to delay their Short Term Let Legislation for 4 years until 1st October 2026. Then in the meantime, revisit the idea of a simple registration scheme as this will provide the meaningful data which they do not currently have. Delaying the legislation will help to avoid the economic genocide of thousands of small self catering businesses who currently face soaring running costs and a very challenging trading environment. There is no current sign of a rescue package for our industry. Yet we form a crucial part of Scotland's tourism offering. We provide affordable accommodation that is the preferred accommodation type for Scots holidaying at home. Scotland should feel proud of what we do. But we've been drowned out by negative, often misleading press. So, here are our stories, the real people involved in Scotland's self-catering industry.......

If you are operating in Edinburgh and one of the 1800 applying for a licence we now have an action for every one of you....
24/01/2024

If you are operating in Edinburgh and one of the 1800 applying for a licence we now have an action for every one of you. You may have already seen the letter sent from the Association of Scotland's Self-Caterers to the leader of The City of Edinburgh Council Council Cammy Day. If not, it's here: https://www.assc.co.uk/.../city-of-edinburgh-planning-policy

This is one of the last chances for us as a community to prevent irrevocable harm to self-catering in our capital and create pragmatic policy that can work for all. Writing now we will seek to enshrine in policy the wins in both Judicial Reviews.

ACTION
We need you to write in the next 6 days to your local City of Edinburgh Council councillors and copy in your local MSP and MP. Either do so from your own email account or use WriteToThem (link below) and let us know when it’s done.

However, it must be in your own voice and words, not a copy and paste job. Try to be positive and constructive… we do not want to get councillor’s backs up.

But we can give you the gist of what we want you to cover…

ISSUES
1. CEC STL policy has already been a resounding success. From an estimated 12 to 13 thousand STLs in Edinburgh we now know that a little over 1,800 have applied for an STL licence as secondary lets with the city's licensing team.
2. None of this ever took into consideration the need for non-tourist needs for short-stay accommodation. - Use your own examples as you see fit.
3. With only 1,800 applications in a city of well over 250,000 homes, it accounts for about 0.7% of housing and is already way less than other major European tourist destinations.
4. If these STLs remaining are not successful it will impact on Edinburgh’s festivals and many other unforeseen consequences are extremely likely.
5. Remaining provision will be hugely over-subscribed pushing up prices and making the city unaffordable to a wide range of visitors and workers.
6. A lack of options will facilitate a likely wider prevalence towards a black market, defeating the original purpose of the measures.
7. I am asking that you support proposals put forward by the Association of Scotland’s Self Caterers - to update planning policies for existing full-time professional short stay accommodation operators, so that they can be provided the opportunity to be given a licence. (Again in your own words).

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If you have any questions about any of the above or want advice, you can ping me on WhatsApp on 07920 094 923

USEFUL RESOURCES
The link below lists all of CEC’s elected councillors. This is useful if you already know your constituency

Your Councillors - https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx
WriteToThem is even more useful. If you do not know who your city councillors are you can enter your home postcode (if you reside in Edinburgh) or your S/C unit’s postcode to get a list of your four ward councillors as well as your MSP and MP.

WriteToThem - https://www.writetothem.com/ (Covers politicians at council, Holyrood & Westminster)

WriteToThem is a website which provides an easy way to contact MPs, councillors and other elected representatives.

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https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-the-self-catering-sector-scotland/

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