🚨 Deadline is today! 🚨
Make sure you submit your comment by midnight tonight on Badenoch and Strathspey becoming a Short Term Let Control Area.
The form is very easy to complete by Highland Council standards. 🙏
Make sure you submit your comment by midnight tonight on Badenoch and Strathspey becoming a Short Term Let Control Area.
The form is very easy to complete by Highland Council standards. 🙏
https://twitter.com/Living_Rent_HI/status/1493971161964855310
If you want to understand the scale of the problem, here's some 'Highlights' from the Highland Council's own evidence paper about Short Term Lets in Badenoch and Strathspey, and generally.
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There is a crisis of supply of available homes in Badenoch and Strathspey 📢, and an abundance of Short Term Lets.
There are currently 560 STLs advertised on the two most popular websites: Airbnb and booking . com.
There are currently 560 STLs advertised on the two most popular websites: Airbnb and booking . com.
For comparison there are NO lets advertised on Rightmove within 20 miles of Kingussie at the very centre of this ward and no lets on HSPC either.
Look on Gumtree? Well there's countless wanted adds for homes to rent and you can get a caravan for £600 per week 🙄
Look on Gumtree? Well there's countless wanted adds for homes to rent and you can get a caravan for £600 per week 🙄
There's also a crisis of affordability here 💷
The mean house price is £224,213, which is £42,600 higher than the Highland wide mean + equally higher than the Scottish Mean.
The median house price is £205,000 - £40k higher than the Highland median and £52k higher Scotland Wide
The mean house price is £224,213, which is £42,600 higher than the Highland wide mean + equally higher than the Scottish Mean.
The median house price is £205,000 - £40k higher than the Highland median and £52k higher Scotland Wide
For reference, the median gross annual earnings for Highland is £29k, so little chance of single earners and families being able to afford a mortgage at 4.5x income
Affordability maps here:
20% of all workers in Highland earn less than the Living Wage
Affordability maps here:
https://twitter.com/Living_Rent_HI/status/1489622782480637962?t=5xfy1Nz0RlbdzJXa0eSHtA&s=19
20% of all workers in Highland earn less than the Living Wage
There's another crisis of de-population and centralisation📉, exacerbated by the lack of available housing available to rent and actually afford
The councils measure of 'ineffective stock' are those which are empty, second homes, short term lets & homes exempt from council tax.
The councils measure of 'ineffective stock' are those which are empty, second homes, short term lets & homes exempt from council tax.
The percentage of 'ineffective stock' in Badenoch and Strathspey is 21% 👀
Other regions in Highland with similar figures are Skye and Lochalsh with 22.4% 😠, Ross and Cromarty with 21.9%, Sutherland with 18.5% and Lochaber with 14.2%.
Other regions in Highland with similar figures are Skye and Lochalsh with 22.4% 😠, Ross and Cromarty with 21.9%, Sutherland with 18.5% and Lochaber with 14.2%.
Sutherland has the highest rate of empty homes, and not coincidentally has one of the most worrying trends for de-population. 
Other alarming statistics for elsewhere:
In the race towards total commodification of the Highland Capital, #Inverness has seen almost a doubling of self-catering classified properties since only 2016, a rise of 94%!
In the race towards total commodification of the Highland Capital, #Inverness has seen almost a doubling of self-catering classified properties since only 2016, a rise of 94%!
A flat share in the Highlands is now 32.6% more expensive than it was in 2010📈, your wages in that time? They've only gone up by 11%.
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#CostOfLivingCrisis
Please share the consultation widely and comment !
@Emma_Roddick @ArianeBurgessHI @Martainn_84 @RhodaGrant @MisneachdAlba @Living_Rent @ACORNunion @_HousingCrisis @catubelfast
@Emma_Roddick @ArianeBurgessHI @Martainn_84 @RhodaGrant @MisneachdAlba @Living_Rent @ACORNunion @_HousingCrisis @catubelfast
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