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		<title>Residents association slams council report on regulating holiday lets</title>
		<link>https://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>
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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="https://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>https://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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://standrewsqv.org.uk/?p=4027</guid>

					<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="https://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>https://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>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[St Andrews Community Council]]></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="https://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>20 mph limit to be introduced across St Andrews</title>
		<link>https://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/12/20-mph-limit-to-be-introduced-across-st-andrews/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[st andrews]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://standrewsqv.org.uk/?p=4004</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Work is well underway in St. Andrews to reduce the speed limit to 20mph within the town boundaries as part of a new Fife Council initiative. Over the coming weeks, new signage will be put in place to make drivers aware of the changes to the speed limit, and to encourage them to drive appropriately. &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="https://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/12/20-mph-limit-to-be-introduced-across-st-andrews/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "20 mph limit to be introduced across St Andrews"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Council Fails to Consult</title>
		<link>https://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/07/council-fails-to-consult/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Good land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Bents St Andrews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Sands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NE Fife Planning Committee]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[North East Fife Planning  Committee has approved a planning application, 24/00383/FULL,  to position a mobile sauna on the East Bents, St Andrews, adjacent to  the harbour and has leasd the site for a period of 5 years. However, since the East Bents is &#8216;Common Good&#8217; land, i.e., it belongs to the community although administered by &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="https://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/07/council-fails-to-consult/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Council Fails to Consult"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Council approves modern lamposts for The Scores</title>
		<link>https://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/05/council-approves-modern-lamposts-for-the-scores/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2024 14:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Letters to Editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St Andrews Conservation Area]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Street lighting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the scores]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://standrewsqv.org.uk/?p=3882</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Sir, I have recently been advised by Fife Council that they have approved the replacement of the lampposts in the central section of The Scores with shiny aluminium poles with flat modern tops (just right for seagulls to sit on?) in an important part of the town&#8217;s conservation area. In spite of the example of &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="https://standrewsqv.org.uk/2024/05/council-approves-modern-lamposts-for-the-scores/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Council approves modern lamposts for The Scores"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Return South Street to its pre-Covid state</title>
		<link>https://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/12/return-south-st-to-its-pre-covid-state/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 20:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letters to Editor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Street consultataion]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://standrewsqv.org.uk/?p=3739</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Sir, I write in support of recent correspondents who have urged Fife Council to return the pavements of South Street to their pre-Covid state, in other words, to discontinue the use of tables, chairs and in some cases large tent-like structures which encumber considerable stretches of the pavements. During Covid, these were seen as an &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="https://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/12/return-south-st-to-its-pre-covid-state/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Return South Street to its pre-Covid state"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>E-scooter casualties and deaths</title>
		<link>https://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/11/e-scooter-casualties-and-deaths/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2022 18:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[e-scooters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Council]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://standrewsqv.org.uk/?p=3703</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Concern has been expressed about Fife Council&#8217;s policy ecouraging cycling, including the use of E-scooters, on the Lade Braes, and data released by the Department of Transport indicates that this concern is well founded. The DfT annual report &#8211; Reported Road casualties Great Britain, annual report: 2021 &#8211; reveals that there were 1,434 casualties involving e-scooters, of &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="https://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/11/e-scooter-casualties-and-deaths/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "E-scooter casualties and deaths"</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fife to invest £13.5M in housing buy-back scheme</title>
		<link>https://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>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://standrewsqv.org.uk/?p=3687</guid>

					<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="https://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>Labour form a minority administration on Fife Council.</title>
		<link>https://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/05/labour-form-a-minority-administration-on-fife-council/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[St Andrews Q.V.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 11:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[councillor david alexander]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[councillor david ross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillor Johnny Tepp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fife Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Liberal Democrats]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://standrewsqv.org.uk/?p=3670</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Despite only winning 20 seats at May&#8217;s local elections compared to the SNP&#8217;s 34, the party gained the support of both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives to take control. A vote of all 75 councillors resulted in 41 councillors opting for the Labour-led minority administration compared to 34 for an SNP-run council. Labour has &#8230; <br /><br /><a href="https://standrewsqv.org.uk/2022/05/labour-form-a-minority-administration-on-fife-council/" class="more-link">Read more<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Labour form a minority administration on Fife Council."</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Proposals for Kilrymont campus announced</title>
		<link>https://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>
		<category><![CDATA[Scotsman Group]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://standrewsqv.org.uk/?p=3237</guid>

					<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="https://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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