The Generation Rent campaign has launched a petition on its website to give councils power to license holiday lets.
The campaign claims that “landlords are taking homes and turning them into hotels” and says that since the emergence of Airbnb and similar platforms, the number of properties being let out on a short term basis has “exploded.”
The trend is concentrated in a small number of locations - Generation Rent suggests that 80 per cent of the recent growth in holiday homes has happened in just 25 local council areas.
The government is proposing to introduce a registration scheme for holiday lets and requiring them to get planning permission but the activists say this doesn’t go far enough.
It says: “Instead, the government should give English councils powers to require holiday lets to join a licensing scheme, and put limits on their number in areas that have particularly bad housing affordability problems.”
A similar proposal has already been implemented in Scotland.
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