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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, November 10, 2025

MOTION NO. 3

MOTION: Councillor D. Adelaide

That this Council agrees that planning enforcement should begin to proactively issue warning letters to properties registered on short-term letting sites 'Airbnb' and 'Booking.ie' that have not applied for the appropriate change of use permission or submitted the appropriate notification to the planning department

REPORT: 

Principal Private Residence (PPR) and Short term Lettings:

• You can let rooms in your own home without restriction.
• If you rent your entire PPR while away, you can do so for up to 90 days per year without planning permission. Beyond that, you need permission for a change of use
• Short-term letting is defined as "Renting a property or room for 14 days or less at a time"

As part of the measures to help address pressures in the private housing rental market, 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.

This Planning Authority manages this process under the Planning Enforcement regime and will pursue cases of notified alleged breaches where there is no record of an application for the appropriate change of use or registration of these properties.