2021-10-12 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   12 OCTOBER 2021




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PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                       12 OCTOBER 2021

               SUMMARY OF NET IMPACTS ASSOCIATED WITH ALTERNATIVES

               in summary, analysis of the alternatives provides the following information:
               Co-regulation
               Local             Existing            Potential          Residents/          Immediate          Tourist            Representative     Travellers’
               government         operators          operators         tenants              neighbours        operators           bodies (Real       Associations
                                                                                                                                  Estate Agents)
              Neutral             Low positive       Low positive       Low positive        Low positive       Low positive       Low positive       Low positive
                                  impact             impact             impact              impact             impact             impact             impact
               Overall the
               impact is neutral. | Overall the      Overall the        Residents may       Residents may      There is potential | Benefits may     Benefits may
               While there are    impact on existing | impact on existing | benefit from the benefit from the  for local tourism  result from        result from
               costs involvedin | short stay letting short stay letting opportunity to      opportunity to     industry to gaina_ | involvement in   involvement in
               establishing a     and home hosted | and home hosted | input into            input into         benefit from       process of         process of
               new system, the    accommodation      accommodation      development of      development of     better relations   developing new     developing new
               long term benefits | operators would  operators would    new local law.      new local law.    between             local law.         local law.
               may outweigh       be positive.       be positive.                                              stakeholders.
               these costs.       Benefits should    Benefits should
                                  flow from the      flow from the
                                  opportunity to     opportunity to
                                  develop a new      develop a new
                                  local law in       local law in
                                  consultation with | consultation with
                                 other               other
                                 stakeholders.       stakeholders.
               Overall, the analysis of costs and benefits has determined there would be a negligible net benefit in moving to a co-regulation regime. There would be some
               costs initially in developing and implementing a new local law. Long term benefits may accrue from the process of bringing stakeholders together to develop
               the new local law such as, establishment of links between stakeholders and fostering better relations between stakeholders, greater compliance by short stay
               letting and home hosted accommodation operators and reduced administration for Council.

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                                                                                                   Attachment 7 PIT Report - Administration (Amendment) LL (No. 1) 2021 & SLL

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