A checklist of the permissions and registrations a holiday let or B&B may need across the UK – planning, the new England registration scheme, London’s 90-night rule, Scottish licensing, Welsh registration and visitor levies, mortgage and lease consents, insurance, business rates or council tax, food business registration and licensing.
Holiday lets, B&Bs & guest houses
Short-Term Let Registration, Licensing and Planning Checklist
About this document
The rules for short-term lets are changing fast and differ across the UK. Scotland already requires a licence, Wales is introducing registration and a visitor levy, and England is introducing a national register. Planning permission, mortgage and lease consents, and the right local tax also need checking. This checklist helps you work through each one and record what you have done.
The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.
A complete, ready-to-use document with every section written, your details shown in [square brackets], and guidance notes explaining how to complete it.
Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.
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