The owners of a Hove holiday home with a hot tub has been ordered to stop using it as short term accommodation.
Anita Dato owns Haven Lodge in Eaton Villas which has been advertised as a holiday let for up to eight people, close to the beach and city centre.
But last month, Brighton and Hove City Council issued an enforcement order to cease the use as short term visitor accommodation.
The home has already been marked as unavailable on hotel listing sites.
The enforcement order was issued and served on 13 June, and is valid from 20 July, with a deadline of 20 August.
Earlier this month, Brighton and Hove City Council turned down an application to turn a house in Camelford Street, Kemp Town, into a holiday home.
Star Property Group had already been using the house as a short term let, and neighbours said they had already been impacted by noise and anti-social behaviour.
One objector who had lived in the street for 25 years said: “Our small, friendly, residential community has suffered immeasurably by the number of homes bought on a whim by greedy, ruthless landlords, pushing up rents and denying families a right to a decent home.”
Labour’s manifesto for May’s elections in Brighton and Hove included a pledge to push for better regulation of short-term lets.
The government is proposing to introduce a national register of Airbnb hosts to curb rowdy behaviour by guests.
Good. Greedy selfish people
The majority of Airbnb lets seem to be made by members of our society who have no consideration for people living in adjoining houses, lack any discipline or restraint getting falling down drunk, screaming, playing loud music basically behaving like the lowest common denominators of society scrotes and fat drunken tarts.
Technically, that’s the people who are renting the properties, rather than the ones who own the building, as much as I would like to criticise the existence of excessive holiday lets. Registration and regulation that matches hotels seems reasonable expectations to have.
Not true at all! The majority of STR owners are extremely conscious of the effect a poorly managed holiday rental can have in a community.
What’s more the majority of them once lived in the properties themselves.
The owners are scared witless that guests will cause a disturbance or trash the property, so most owners carefully screen their guests. After all many owners use these properties as a holiday home themselves and purely STR to help with the bills and mortgage.
The issue is that not all hosts are like that, some are in it purely for the revenue and will squeeze every penny out of the property. Nothing illegal about that, but morally questionable when you know it’s technically a ‘residential’ property and not commercial.
There are thousands of STR’s in the greater Brighton area, most are very well run, most residents do t even know they are in their own street.
It’s the minority of STR’s which cause the bad publicity, rather than the majority.
Your misdirected remarks & nasty name-calling suggest to me you are no better behaved than these unruly guests! Also, the lack of punctuation is painful.
Not all holiday lets are advised on letting websites. We have one in our street and we cannot find it’s advertising but we do find the noise, inconsideration or guests mess etc.
ALL lets should be registered AND declared
I bet I could find it advertised. What is the address?
AirDNA is quite insightful, Mark!
Some places are owned by people who live outside the UK and only advertise in non UK magazine, we have one next door. No contact with the owners is possible, not even though local tax ooffice