In 2020, Westminster had over 13,000 short-term lets, at the expense of longer-term housing.
And in 2019, the City of London had the highest amount of short-term lets in London, with 72% of these being entire homes.
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We believe that this is reducing the number of homes available for local people and can also lead to anti-social behaviour.
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The Government has finally published it’s plans for a short term lets registration scheme.
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But it does not go far enough.
We call on the Conservatives to go futher to save our homes and:
1. Introduce a compulsory registration scheme
2. Introduce powers for local councils to prosecute the hosts for anti-social and illegal activity
3. Revise the current bureaucratic and slow mechanisms proposed so that local councils can restrict the number of short term lets in an area
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Agree? Sign my petition below.
