On 1st July 2019, the government introduced new planning regulations for short term lettings under the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2019 and related legislations. The new regulations were created in response to growing pressures in Ireland's private rental market and seek to return residential properties to the long-term rental market in areas of high housing demand, known as Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs).

On 25th June 2025 Rent Pressure Zones were extended to all areas nationwide.

Under the new arrangements applicable in rent pressure zones:

• Short term letting is defined as the letting of a house or apartment, or part of a house or apartment, for any period not exceeding 14 days.
• Home sharing (the letting of a room or rooms in a person’s principal private residence) will continue to be permissible on an unrestricted basis and be exempted from the new planning requirements.
• Home sharers will be allowed to sub-let their entire principle private residence (house or apartment) on a short-term basis for a cumulative period of 90 days where they are temporarily absent from their home.
• Where the 90 day threshold is exceeded, change of use planning permission will be required.

If you home share your principal private residence in a rent pressure zone and wish to avail of the new planning exemptions, you will need to register this with the planning authority and fulfil specified reporting obligations.

However, where a person owns a property in a rent pressure zone which is not their principal private residence and intends to let it for short-term letting purposes, s/he will be required to apply for a change of use planning permission unless the property already has a specific planning permission to be used for tourism or short-term letting purposes.

Short Term Letting Guidance Notes and FAQs

Guidance-Notes-for-Regulating-Short-Term-Letting.pdf (size 1.4 MB)

FAQ-s-Short-Term-Lettings.pdf (size 475.9 KB)

Short-Term-Letting-Regs-(Exempted-Development).pdf (size 232.7 KB)

How to Register for Short-Term Letting and Homesharing

In certain situations where you may not need planning permission you will still need to register with the planning authority to get an exemption from the requirement for planning permission. This applies if:

• You rent a room in your principal private residence for short-term lets over 14 days while you are also occupying it.
• You are going to be away from your principle private residence, and you want to let it out on a short-term basis, for less than 90 days in a calendar year.

If you are offering short-term lettings in an RPZ area, but are exempt from the planning permission requirement, you still need to register with the local authority in order to avail of this exemption.

There is no charge to register your short-term let with the Local Authority.  

You must complete the following forms and provide any additional documents needed and send them to your local authority within the required time limits.

• Form 15 – Start of year notification form. This form should be sent to your local authority within 4 weeks of the start of each year, and no later than 2 weeks before the first short-term let of the year for that property.

• Form 16 – 90 day threshold notification form. This should only be sent to your local authority if you are a homeowner temporarily away from your home and reach the 90 day threshold during the year. You should submit the form no more than 2 weeks after the 90 day threshold has been reached.

• Form 17 – End of year notification form. This should be sent to your local authority between the 1 and 28 January of the year after the lettings have taken place.

Form-15.pdf (size 85.3 KB)

Form-16.pdf (size 58.4 KB)

Form-17.pdf (size 34.7 KB)

You will have to provide documentation proving that the property is your principal private residence.

Further enquiries on the above, can be forwarded via email to planning@roscommoncoco.ie

Completed Notification Forms

Completed notification forms to be returned by email to planning@roscommoncoco.ie or by post to:

Áras an Chontae, Roscommon County Council, Áras an Chontae, Roscommon F42 VR98

Please use the reference Short Term Letting in all correspondence