Edinburgh Council amends 'unlawful' short-term lets plan

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Edinburgh Council amends 'unlawful' short-term lets plan
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Opponents say they will take further legal action against the scheme designed to tackle housing shortages.

In June's Court of Session case, which came just four months before the scheme was due to launch, Lord Braid ruled as unlawful a presumption against allowing entire tenement flats to be used for short-term letting unless their owners could demonstrate why they should be exempt.

All unlawful elements of the policy have now been removed by the council and a new version has been published online. The four petitioners who tabled June's judicial review, crowdfunding a record £300,000, welcomed the changes but said it remained unclear if all of Lord Braid's recommendations would be carried forward.

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