Sporty Chick

Sporty Irish chick living in Scotland, and loving it :-)

[Tour de France™ @LeTour]

🚩 Edimbourg ➡️ Paris 🏁

🤩 Here is the official route of the #TDF2027!

🤩 Voici le parcours officiel du #TDF2027 !

[Edinburgh City Break Apartment @edin_city_break]

Here’s a ‘loophole’ you might want to take credit for @CllrChasBooth: take the 4300 STLs currently on Airbnb not displaying a licence, let’s estimate £5000 revenue in this quarter; that’s £250 per property, per quarter lost in Accommodation Tax (sorry; visitor levy). That’s £1m PER QUARTER in lost revenue. Why then, are you and @Edinburgh_CC so determined to shut down the ever-diminishing amount of licensed STls paying the tax? Especially in the total absence of any evidence of loss of amenity for most of them. #SaveSC @bbcandrewpicken @deadlinenews @vickimillerVS @adamtomforrest @CBI_Scotland @SCOTOnetwork @stephenjardine @briandonnellyHT @collarbrodies @licensinglaws @stvnews @stvsharon @montaukian @mediawummin @RhodaFMorrison @donaldturvill @heraldscotland @bbcscotlandnews @edinburghpaper

[Ne Obliviscaris @rock_shamrock]

Vote Booth if you want a Cllr obsessed with closing LICENCED STLs while ignoring the black market of illegal lets-proof the Greens like to single out & target hard-working people (& other certain groups) rather than focus on issues that should matter to them, like the climate!!!

[Hugh McGivern @Hugh6303]

@oldtownrez @lornaslater She doesn't do law or listening she thinks as an MSP she is above everything. She destroyed the bottle return scheme through sheer incompetence & would destroy the hospitality industry as well. How can this woman be allowed to poke her nose into Scottish affairs when she hates us

[U2 @U2]

Back home in Dublin… No better way to spend our 50th anniversary than with the beautiful souls of Grafton Street last night 🇮🇪

[David MacKenzie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @oldtownrez]

High volume high impact visitor accomodation now gets routinely approved in Edinburgh while micro scale low impact single properties get shutdown.

https://t.co/g3gkV13gy4

[David MacKenzie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @oldtownrez]

@ianswansonen Lorna Slater is proposing something that goes against Court Of Session decision. You need to contact the trade body @ASSCnews to get an accurate position on this.. and have that response in your article.

https://t.co/b6kqQkIOW1

[David MacKenzie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @oldtownrez]

@JohnSwinney I have a good imagination but it has limits.

You've royally fu*ked the visitor economy which had happily trundled along for a century with complex regulation and levies. B&Bs and Self Catering closed and what remains is now extortionate.

[Gilded Lily @GildedLily13]

@edin_city_break @lornaslater @scottishgreens Pure fiction. The electorate deserve honesty avd a true representation of the facts. Instead they get breathless hysteria which bears no resemblance to reality

[Edinburgh City Break Apartment @edin_city_break]

@lornaslater @scottishgreens can you give an example- just one- of a stair that is ‘nothing but STLs’? There aren’t any. Unless you count the serviced apartment blocks that are popping up all over the city, that you don’t seem to have a problem with. The STL register confirms this. Stop telling lies to push your vendetta. #SaveSC @BBCScotlandNews

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

Licensed S/C makes up 1% of all housing. The far bigger issue is the huge summer unlicensed & unsafe black market poor legislation created which goes unpoliced by @Edinburgh_CC #SaveSC
Plea to Scottish Government to close loophole on short-term lets https://t.co/EDd1y9fNVq

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

@rock_shamrock @rodbishop15 @Edinburgh_CC Let's not overlook other seemingly 'business friendly' councillors such as @jomowat who is equally culpable under her watch of creating a booming unsafe & unpoliced black market while killing off local small operators & allowing in offshore investors #SaveSC @ScotTories

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

@rock_shamrock @rodbishop15 This @edinburgh_CC councillor has hunted down & axed existing local owner-operators & facilitated offshored investment that extracts wealth abroad. Under his watch a black market has blossomed that did not exist. He is culpable & seemingly also a hypocrite. #SaveSC

[Ne Obliviscaris @rock_shamrock]

@rodbishop15 And another landlord - hypocrisy off the scale with this Scottish Green Landlord

[antthe @marramgrass252]

@LivingRent_Edi maybe to give you the benefit of the doubt you are describing an uptick in temp exemptions for the fringe - usually home sharing or people letting for a week or 2 while on hols. Either way this is not a housing issue.

[David MacKenzie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @oldtownrez]

Edinburgh remains the most expensive city in Scotland to buy in, with average prices reaching £296,471 in May 2026, up 2.4% year on year.

Council policies including shutting down self-catering have not eased the housing crisis in the city.

https://t.co/yT52Xd90hQ

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

Attacks on self-caterers by @edinburgh_CC have led to higher prices on all accommodation & a booming black market that didn't exist brazenly operating in plain sight. It's a gold rush for offshored big biz interests that this city's handed over on a platter. #SaveSC @ASSCnews

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

@EdinInquirer This is smoke & mirrors. @edinburgh_CC has not received anything yet. It is spending money (& making grand gestures) over cash it does not have based on estimates it cannot confirm. Small biz is reeling from the bureaucracy. #SaveSC @ASSCnews @ETAG_UK @st_alliance

[SaveSelfCatering @SaveSCScotland]

Interesting. @Edinburgh_CC can seemingly calculate an estimate but can't tell operators how to calculate that actual charge. #SaveSC @ASSCnews https://t.co/DskRUPI3FJ

[Sporty Chick @1SportyChick]

@rock_shamrock @Edinburgh_CC Crazy isn't it?!! And if you "Black Market" other dates the CEC won't do anything about it - given there are thousands of non compliant properties being advertised on Airbnb and Co. I'd be mortified if I was so bad at my job!