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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

QUESTION NO.10

QUESTION: Councillor J. Sinnott

To ask the Manager how many applications for the conversion of residential properties to short term lettings (airBnB) have been received in the Rathfarnham / Templeogue Firhouse / Bohernabreena area and how many of them have been granted permission?

REPLY:

As part of the measures to help address pressures in the private housing rental market, new planning legislative reforms to regulate the short-term letting sector - as provided for in the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019 and supplementary regulations made by the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government entitled the "Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2019" - came into effect on 1st July 2019.

Where a person owns a property in a rent pressure zone which is not their principal private residence and intends to let it for short-term letting purposes, that person is required to apply for a change of use planning permission unless the property already has a specific planning permission to be used for tourism or short-term letting purposes.

 For Information:   One planning application relating to the conversion of residential properties to short term lettings was received for this AC administrative area. SD24A/0203W was granted permission for change of use from existing residential dwelling to short term stay / guest house in October 2024.