I think dealing with any anti social behaviour makes a lot of sense, however if its pushed to the council, will they be able to cope with more licencing?
At the moment, long term landlords need to be registered, but its not an onerous process even for an amateur, nor is there any real quality check on the property to be let.
Yes, there are regulations for Gas / Fire alarms etc, but I would guess that the chances of getting caught are close to zero.
I do also think the news outlets need to present their data in a slightly different way - up my way, there are many rental flats in Marchmont, usually let to students in term time, but which I assume people may punt as festival lets over the summer.
This is something which (I imagine?) has happened for many a year, but which is getting a bit more publicity now due to the rise of airbnb.
The bigger issue is outside summer months and party flats which are permanently on airbnb.
Again, while the X number of days limit sounds ok as a soundbite, I struggle to see how the council will cope with this and unscrupulous operators will always find a way round.
n.b. I used airbnb as a guest for the first time last week, a couple of days in Warkworth - some holiday cottage rental companies only accept full weeks which is prohibitively expensive - with airbnb we could get the 2 nights we wanted, it was pretty reasonable and high quality too.
I can see the attraction.
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