Short Term Lets exemption checklist

You will need to apply for a licence 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