Short-term lets – licensing scheme and planning control areas: consultation analysis

Annex B - Consultation Workshops

1. We held 20 virtual workshops and events with representative groups of individuals and organisations from 16 September to 9 October 2020. In total, around 423 people attended our workshops, including the 230 at the ASSC Autumn Talk on 29 September at which Mr Ewing MSP and Scottish Government officials presented and answered questions from ASSC members.

2. The numbers at each event follow paragraph 3. This table shows the number of times met a representative from each of the categories (noting that some organisations attended more than one workshop):

Category	Interactions
Accrediting organisation	4
Channel manager	2
Holiday letting agency (or PRS)	6
Host (including ASSC Autumn Talk)	260
Hosting intermediary	4
Information provider	3
Neighbour (resident)	20
Local authority	81
Platform	8
Regulator[32]	23
Wider tourism and trade associations	12
Total	423

3. There were 20 workshops and engagement events at which the following organisations attended. The number attending is in brackets in the left column, excluding Scottish Government officials. More were invited to most workshops:

Accrediting organisations

16 September 2020

(4)

• Electrical Safety First
• Firescape
• Quality in Tourism
• Superhog (Guardhog) Technologies

STAA

17 September 2020

(9)

• Airbnb
• Altido
• HomeAway
• Houst
• PassTheKeys
• SpotHost
• STAA
• Sykes Cottages

Heads of Planning Scotland

23 September 2020

(21)

• Aberdeen
• Argyle & Bute
• Cairngorms National Park
• Dumfries & Galloway
• East Dunbartonshire
• East Lothian
• Edinburgh
• Fife
• Glasgow
• Highland
• Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park
• North Ayrshire
• Perth & Kinross
• South Ayrshire
• Stirling
• Western Isles

Rural residents

24 September 2020

(2)

• Individuals only

Information providers

25 September 2020

(2)

• Scottish Fire and Rescue Service

COSLA

28 September 2020

(2)

• COSLA officials

ASSC Autumn Talk

29 September 2020

(230)

• ASSC
• Visit Scotland (secretariat)
• A range of self-catering businesses and individuals

Law Society of Scotland

30 September 2020

(11)

• Law Society
• Brunton Miller (licensing subcommittee)
• Gilson Gray (licensing subcommittee)
• TLT Solicitors (licensing subcommittee)
• Perth & Kinross Council (licensing subcommittee)
• West Dunbartonshire Council (licensing subcommittee)
• Anderson Strathern (planning subcommittee)
• Shepherd and Wetherburn (planning subcommittee)
• Brodies (planning subcommittee)
• City of Edinburgh Council (planning subcommittee)
• SOLAR Planning Law Group(planning subcommittee)

Councils: Environmental Health Officers

1 October 2020

(46)

• Aberdeen
• Aberdeenshire
• Argyll & Bute
• Clackmannanshire
• Dundee
• East Lothian
• East Renfrewshire
• Edinburgh
• Fife
• Glasgow
• Glasgow
• Highland
• Inverclyde
• Moray
• North Ayrshire
• North Lanarkshire
• Orkney
• Perth & Kinross
• Renfrewshire
• Shetland
• South Ayrshire
• South Lanarkshire
• West Dunbartonshire
• Western Isles

Residents: Urban

1 October 2020

(15)

• Ayr Residents’ Association
• Britannia Quay Residents’ Association
• Cockburn Association
• Duddingston Residents’ Association
• Edinburgh Southside Community Council
• Firhill Community Council
• Grassmarket Community Council
• Leith and Newhaven Community Council
• Leith Harbour & Newhaven Community Council
• New Town & Broughton Community Council
• PLACE Edinburgh
• Stockbridge & Inverleith Community Council
• Individuals

Self-Caterers (ASSC)

2 October 2020

(13)

• Aberdeenshire self-caterers
• Angus self-caterer
• Argyll & Bute self-caterer
• ASSC
• Cairngorm National Park self-caterer
• Evergreen Property Ltd / ASSC Board
• Gilson Gray (ASSC Legal)
• Isle of Skye self-caterer
• OLTA
• Perth and Kinross self-caterers
• Perthshire Tourism Partnership
• Scottish Agri Tourism
• Sutherland self-caterer
• Visit Aberdeenshire
• Wild Scotland

Rural residents II

2 October 2020

(3)

• West Harris Trust
• Individuals

Councils: Housing and Licensing Officers

5 October 2020

(12)

• Dundee City
• East Lothian
• Edinburgh
• Falkirk
• Fife
• Highland
• North Ayshire
• Renfrewshire
• West Dunbartonshire
• West Lothian

Visit Scotland & Tourism

6 October 2020

(9)

• ASSC
• ETAG
• Scottish Tourism Alliance
• Skye Connect
• UK Hospitality
• Visit Arran
• Visit Scotland

Airbnb hosts

6 October 2020

(18)

• Airbnb
• Individuals secondary letting
• Individuals home sharing and home letting

Local Government and Communities Committee, Scottish Parliament

7 October 2020

(7)^[33]

• Members (informal session)

Information providers

7 October 2020

(1)

• Police Scotland

Platforms and channel managers

8 October 2020

(7)

• Airbnb
• Booking.com
• Booksterhq
• GuestReady (Edinburgh)
• HomeAway (Expedia)
• Ketchum

Letting agents (and aparthotels)

9 October 2020

(6)

• EdLets
• Sonder
• Orbit
• Palm Holdings (Edinburgh)
• Rettie
• StayCity

Regulatory Review Group

9 October 2020

(5)

• Professor Russel Griggs, Chair
• Scottish Chambers of Commerce
• Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC)
• Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
• Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC)
• Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
• Forum of Private Business (FPB)
• Institute of Chartered Accounts of Scotland (ICAS)
• Scotland Office
• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)