Reply - Q4 Short Term Letting

COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, February 10, 2025

QUESTION NO. 4

QUESTION: Councillor D. Adelaide

To ask the Chief Executive how many Form-15 notifications have been received by the Council for each year (including 2024) in relation to short term lets as required by the supplementary new Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 amend the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended and apply from 1st July 2019?

REPLY:

The Short Term Letting (STL) Regulations, which were due to expire at the end of 2021, were extended as a consequence of their connection with the Rent Pressure Zone legislation.

Under these regulations, arrangements applicable in rent pressure zones are set out as follows:

Short term letting is defined as the letting of a house or apartment, or part of a house or apartment, for any period not exceeding 14 days.
Homesharing (the letting of a room or rooms in a person’s principal private residence) will continue to be permissible on an unrestricted basis and be exempted from the new planning requirements.
Homesharers will be allowed to sub-let their entire principle private residence (house or apartment) on a short term basis for a cumulative period of 90 days where they are temporarily absent from their home.
Where the 90 day threshold is exceeded, change of use planning permission will be required.

Anybody wishing to avail of these planning exemptions is required to register this with the relevant local authority by completing a Form 15 Notification.

South Dublin has received 2 Form 15 Notifications - one was received in 2022 and one was received in 2023.

Replacement legislation involving the registration of short-term letting properties, which is under development in conjunction with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and Fáilte Ireland, is at an advanced stage and is expected to be in place in 2025.

Once this legislation is in place, it is anticipated that all short term tourist accommodation in Ireland will be registered with Fáilte Ireland and this will replace the Form-15 Notifications currently being supplied to Local Authorities.

In the interim, the existing STL Regulations will remain in place until the new STL registration regime is operational.