Planning circular 1/2023: short-term lets and planning

2. Overview

2.1 This guidance is primarily concerned with the change of use of a dwellinghouse to use for short-term lets and whether this change is a "material" change of use for the purposes of planning. It covers how consideration of whether a change is material is affected by the establishment of a short-term let control area. It also considers the process and procedures to be followed in establishing, altering or removing a control area

2.2 This Circular replaces and revokes the previous Circular 1/2021: Short-Term Let Control Areas.