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		<title>Councillors reject officials recommendation on holiday lets</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2026/01/councillors-reject-officials-recommendation-on-holiday-lets/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Cabinet Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Council Planning Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday lets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short-term lets]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[At its meeting on the 8th January, Fife Council&#8217;s Cabinet Committee rejected a report by council officials recommending against the implementation of short-term let control areas (STLCAs) on the grounds that STLs have a limited impact on housing compared to other types of properties, such as HMOs and second homes, and a fear that their &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2026/01/councillors-reject-officials-recommendation-on-holiday-lets/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Councillors reject officials recommendation on holiday lets"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Residents association slams council report on regulating holiday lets</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2026/01/residents-association-slams-council-report-on-regulating-holiday-lets/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airbnb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cabinet Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confederation of St Andrews Resident's Associations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consultation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSARA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday lets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short-term lets]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The recommendation to the Fife Council Cabinet Committee to ignore the problems caused by increasing short term lets, such as AirBnb in St Andrews and the East Neuk has been met with disbelief by the Confederation of St Andrews Residents Association (CSARA). Chair of CSARA David Middleton has criticised the report going to the committee on 8th January &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2026/01/residents-association-slams-council-report-on-regulating-holiday-lets/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Residents association slams council report on regulating holiday lets"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Council consults on Airbnb type short-term lets</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2025/08/council-consults-on-airbnb-type-short-term-lets/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consultation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short-term lets]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fife Council has launched a consultation on short-term lets which ends on 8th September. The questionnaire seeks views on whether to establish control areas for this type of accommodation which overwhelmingly is located in the mainline housing stock. World-wide, short-term let websites, of which airbnb is the best known, advertise holiday accommodation in areas attractive &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2025/08/council-consults-on-airbnb-type-short-term-lets/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Council consults on Airbnb type short-term lets"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Short-Term Lets &#8211; Residents Association calls for St Andrews Control Areas</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2025/04/short-term-lets-residents-association-calls-for-st-andrews-control-areas/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 18:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confederation of St Andrews Resident's Associations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short-term lets]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Confederation of St Andrews Residents Asociations, working with the Community Council and Preservation Trust, is calling for measures to enable the Council to regulate and manage Short Term Lets by establishing  Control Areas in St Andrews. Introduction Fife Council is to consult on the need to regulate the number of lets in parts of &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2025/04/short-term-lets-residents-association-calls-for-st-andrews-control-areas/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Short-Term Lets &#8211; Residents Association calls for St Andrews Control Areas"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Grange &#8216;university village&#8217; completed</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/11/grange-university-village-completed/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingdom Group]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Principal Sally Mapstone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[st andrews university]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The University has completed its new affordable and sustainable housing development for postgraduate students and staff at the Grange, on the outskirts of St Andrews. Working in partnership with Kingdom Initiatives for the first time, the new ‘university village’ is a pioneering project offering much-needed affordable housing for postgraduate students and university staff, helping to &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/11/grange-university-village-completed/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Grange &#8216;university village&#8217; completed"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>University hopes to build 700 bedroom student residence in St Andrews</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2023/05/university-hopes-to-build-700-bedroom-student-residence-in-st-andrews/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 13:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albany Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campus living villages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Sands St Andrews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[purpose built student accommodation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Andews University]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The University of St Andrews is to press ahead with plans to provide an extra 700 student beds in town to help take the pressure off the private rental market. Working with its partner Campus Living Villages (CLV), the University is re-submitting multi-million-pound plans for a major new student residence on the site of Albany Park, &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2023/05/university-hopes-to-build-700-bedroom-student-residence-in-st-andrews/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "University hopes to build 700 bedroom student residence in St Andrews"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Plans submitted for Craigtoun Hospital development</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2023/01/plans-submitted-for-craigtoun-hospital-development/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2023 09:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Craigtoun Hospital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greystone Estates (Dundee) Ltd]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The B listed former Craigtoun Maternity Hospital in St Andrews, which closed 30 years ago and has lain empty ever since, could be transformed into luxury flats if plans submitted by Greystone Estates (Dundee) Ltd are approved. Greystone Estates, who bought the house in 2021 from the The Kholer Company, want to build 16 new flats &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2023/01/plans-submitted-for-craigtoun-hospital-development/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Plans submitted for Craigtoun Hospital development"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Plans for Kilrymont site approved in principle</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/12/plans-for-kilrymont-site-approved-in-principle/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 22:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kilrymont Road site]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North East Planning Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotsman Developments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student accommodation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Councillors on Fife Council&#8217;s North East Planning Committee unanimously agreed the application from Glasgow-based Scotsman Developments for a mixed-use development at the Kilrymont Road site, previously occupied by Madras College. The approval is &#8216;in principle&#8217; and more detailed plans will now have to come forward for approval. Plans include 160 homes and student accommodation  leisure facilities, &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/12/plans-for-kilrymont-site-approved-in-principle/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Plans for Kilrymont site approved in principle"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fife to invest £13.5M in housing buy-back scheme</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/09/fife-to-invest-13-5m-in-housing-buy-back-scheme/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cllr Judy Hamilton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cllr Lesley Blackhouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Mills]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Local authorities can buy back their old stock when it comes on the market but until now Fife Council had imposed a limit of acquiring just 50 a year, rising to 100 during the Covid pandemic However, councillors have now agreed to scrap the cap on numbers and buy back as many former council houses as it &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/09/fife-to-invest-13-5m-in-housing-buy-back-scheme/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Fife to invest £13.5M in housing buy-back scheme"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Proposals for Kilrymont campus announced</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2021/07/proposals-for-kilrymont-campus-announced/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kilrymont]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[madras college]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Following the marketing of the former school site by Fife Council for development purposes, Scotsman Developments Ltd have announced proposals for the delivery of a new mixed-use development at the former Madras College campus on Kilrymont Road, St Andrews. Proposals from Scotsman Developments Ltd include new housing (including 30 per cent affordable homes) and the &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2021/07/proposals-for-kilrymont-campus-announced/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Proposals for Kilrymont campus announced"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>New short-term lets legislation proposed</title>
		<link>http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2020/10/new-short-term-lets-legislation-proposed/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday lets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Watchman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[short-term lets]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[On January 14th this year, St Andrews QV published an article on  growing concerns about residential properties being turned into short term lets for holidays and parties. This is a Europe-wide problem and continues to expand worldwide. Holiday destinations including large cities such as Edinburgh were being affected by a change in the character of &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="http://standrewsqv.org.uk/2020/10/new-short-term-lets-legislation-proposed/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "New short-term lets legislation proposed"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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