Hundreds of short-term rental accommodation (STRA) owners in the Byron Shire are ‘blatantly rorting’ the system by falsely claiming they are not required to register their properties, Byron Council has been told.

A holiday letting operation deep in the bush at Middle Pocket has been ordered to close its doors after a court found that the dwellings were unauthorised and not up to standard.

With the new cap on unhosted short-term rental accommodation (STRA) of 60 days a year now in place for Byron Shire, Council staff say they ‘will now spend the next several months focusing on consolidating data on unhosted properties’. 

More than five years after the state government famously promised to give Byron its own cap on short-term rental accommodation (STRA), it’s finally happening.

How do we encourage people who own secondary dwellings, dual occupancies and investment properties in the Shire to put them on the long-term rental market rather than posting them on Airbnb?

Residential zones in significant portions of coastal towns in Tweed and Byron Shires are now dominated by non-hosted short-term rental accommodation (STRA), removing much-needed...

As Collingwood and Penrith fans celebrate two cliffhanger wins, the Byron community has scored their own equally hard fought twin victories. 

Booking agency Stayz says Byron Shire Council’s 60-day cap for short-term rental accommodation will only limit ‘accommodation options for tourists and income for mum and dad retirees’.

With the Independent Planning Commission’s report on Byron’s holiday letting still sitting on the desk of NSW planning minister Paul Scully (Labor), The Echo asked when residents could expect a decision.

What an outcome on holiday letting – it’s a bit like offering $1,000 for a horse and getting it for $500. Yeeha! Happy as I am about the headline outcome, Recommendation 4 by the IPC commissioners suggests opening up more land – the Ballina-isation of Byron.