Appendix 1 - Objection (Whitehead)
Perth and Kinross Council · 8 January 2024
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1 Civic Licensing From: Celia Whitehead < > Sent: 02 November 2023 12:24 To: CDS STL Subject: Resubmission of short term let application no 439 - objection CAUTION: This email originated from an external organisation. Do not follow guidance, click links, or open attachments unless you have verified the sender and know the content is safe. Hello Thankyou for allowing me to resubmit my objection to short term let application number 439 Ruby’s Cottage 38 North Bridge Street Crieff Ph73hj To address the shortcomings of my original objection: My address is 40 North Bridge Street Crieff Ph73hj My objection was seemingly late but was infact made at the earliest opportunity made available to me when the register of applications showed that an application had been made at the beginning of October 2023. Prior to that there was no record on the register, something that I have checked every week for one year without fail. Neither was any notice posted at the property visible from any public accessible area outside the property, again something I have checked weekly if not daily throughout the year. The notice may have been posted at the front of the property in an area not visible to the public as the cottage is accessed from a private road leading to farm buildings. No access along that road is permitted to the general public. I have seen other such notices displayed at other short term let’s in the area but never at Ruby’s Cottage. My original e mail was as follows Hello I note today that the application for short term let has appeared on the Perth and Kinross list of applicants no 439, the date of application shows February despite not being present before. I live next door to the property and despite regular checks, have not seen any visible notice at the road side or until today any notice of application on the council website, nor have I received planning permission notices for anything other than a dwelling house. After 2 years of constant noise from the property primarily from parties at the property beginning as soon a 8am and finishing as late as 3.30 am the following day. I am at the point of wishing my life to end. When dark my whole garden is illuminated by the yard light over the hot tub and music laughing and foul language can be heard in every room in my house. There is no escape from the disruption. Holidaymakers standing on the hot tub or on the veranda use the light to watch into my garden and watch me either sitting at my garden bench or walking down to my greenhouse. I have no privacy, There are occasional normal holidaymakers visit the property but in the main the visitors are partymakers attracted by the hot tub, who when asked politely to make less noise respond angrily stating that they have paid a lot of money for the rental and will therefore do as they like. Items including bottles and used condoms are frequently deposited over the fence into my property. I am at my wits end and now retired to the property I have spend 10 years with my husband doing up for a peaceful retirement, cannot afford to move away. Conversations have been had with the owner which have not resulted in any improvement in the situation. A complaint made to the holiday booking company has resulted in my being given a contact number should a particularly hostile event ever be repeated as they are able to have such visitors removed.
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2 One of my neighbours has called the police at 3am in the morning, another has thrown water over them in an attempt to get them to quieten. (with no effect) Hot tubs for holidaymakers are not appropriate in a quiet residential street. Removal of the hot tub would still allow for a source of income for the owner without destroying the lives of those who have the misfortune to live nearby. Please take my comments into consideration when deciding on granting any licence. Yours sincerely Celia Whitehead 40 North Bridge Street Crieff Ph73hj Sent from my iPhone