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andrewducker) wrote2018-03-10 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2018-03-10 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 10-03-2018
- Should we make marriage harder?
- (tags: marriage law )
- Ireland and Brexit, four ways forward
- (tags: ireland uk europe )
- China’s lab-grown diamonds threaten viability of real gems. (Yaaaaay!)
- Reminder: https://priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bullshit
(tags: diamonds Technology GoodNews ) - Psychologists have explored why we sometimes like listening to the same song on repeat
- (tags: psychology music )
- This is why I object to people renting out flats on AirBnB
- (tags: housing rental Edinburgh OhForFucksSake )
- The Race-Based Mortgage Penalty
- (tags: racism housing usa mortgages )
- Labour bosses block vote on single market membership
- (tags: Scotland labour europe )
- Transgender People and “Biological Sex” Myths
- (tags: lgbt transgender brain )
- Fake news travels much further and faster than real news on social media
- (tags: news fraud lies socialmedia )
- Your regular reminder that EU migrants have no negative effect on UK wages
- (tags: wages immigration UK europe )
- Britain’s White-Collar Cops Are Getting Too Good at Their Job
- (tags: fraud UK OhForFucksSake corruption politics )
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Between stories like this and AirBnB driving up rents (because landlords can, or at least think they can make more money using their apartments are AirBnB locations), I'm convinced that AirBnB either needs massive reform or to be made illegal - Uber and Lyft are in pretty much the same position, since they basically amount of people trading wear and tear on their car for money, with below US minimum wage (which is already a pittance) money in addition. In short, the "gig economy" is largely a massive scam. Yet another example of what libertarianism at work actually looks like.
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There are lots and lots of places that require "some" holiday letting properties in order for their tourist industry to work at all. (I don't think Edinburgh is one of these places - there are ample opportunities for hotels to provide short stay accomodation. We don't *need* holiday lets in order to have a tourist industry - but they might be useful.)
I think I'd like to see short-stay accomodation treated as a change of use for planning purposes and therefore requiring planning permission. I think this would allow Edinburgh to ration the number and manage the density of short-stay accomodation in a way that was useful for Edinburgh and also allow small seaside towns to do the same. I think some sort of additional licensing on top of this with a good behaviour condition attached would be useful along with some practical mechanisms for direct enforcement by neighbours.
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"I think I'd like to see short-stay accomodation treated as a change of use for planning purposes and therefore requiring planning permission."
That seems reasonable to me. Having that as (effectively) additional licensing would work to keep things peaceful.
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