You will need to apply for a license if:
- you will be using all or part of your own home for short-term lets while you are there or you are absent (for example, letting when you are on holiday)
- you will be letting a property where you do not normally live, for example a second home
You do not need to apply for Short Term Lets if:
- You are providing your property for free
- You are letting property to immediate family
- You are having a friend over to stay NOT in the arrangement in the course of business
- Your business is already licensed for accommodation and/or overnight stays. For example:
- A restaurant with rooms or an inn
- licensed caravans
- Camping grounds where guests bring their own tent/equipment.
- Working Mobile accommodation such as canal boats or yachts.
- Hotels
- Self-catering property in the grounds of a licensed hotel
- Aparthotels
- You are letting property for Health and care accommodation including:
- residential care homes
- and nursing homes.
- You are letting property for Educational accommodation including:
- residential schools
- colleges
- training centres
- purpose-built student accommodation
- Student halls of residence
- where your guests live with you for the principal purpose of advancing their education and the arrangement has been a made or approved by a school, college, further or higher educational institution (such as a university
- You are letting property for Secure residential accommodation, including:
- prisons
- young offenders institutions
- detention centres
- secure training centres
- custody centres
- short-term holding centres
- secure hospitals
- secure local authority accommodation
- military barracks
- Your are running Hostels and refuges.
- You are providing Shift accommodation owned by an employer and provided to an employee
- Your guests live with you for the principal purpose of providing work or services to you (The same applies in respect of guests living in other premises)
- You are Letting out or providing a property to an individual where it is that individuals principal home. for example:
- Letting out property as a private residential tenancy
- Agricultural tenancies such as crofting and social housing
- Providing accommodation to a lodger (including refugees) in your own home
