What a second legal defeat means for Edinburgh's "Airbnb" licensing

Can 'peace talks' save city from quagmire of appeals, more legal challenges and compensation claims?

Pic By John Drummond

The dust is starting to settle on the debris of City of Edinburgh Council’s hard-line policy on the licensing of so-called Airbnb-style short-term lets, after Lord Braid’s emphatic Judicial Review judgement labelled a large part of their approach “unfair and illogical” and therefore unlawful.

It was the second time the learned Court o…