A Gassiot Road home in Tooting Bec let on Airbnb and Booking.com for more than 90 nights this year faces a council enforcement notice to stop the short lets.

A family house at 113 Gassiot Road in Tooting Bec is to be served with an enforcement notice after Wandsworth Council found it had been let to short-stay guests for more than 90 nights between January and August 2026, beyond the limit that applies to homes in London.

Councillors on the Planning Committee voted unanimously on 22 October to take action against its use as short-term visitor accommodation. The decision authorises the council to issue a notice requiring the short lets to stop and the house to go back to its lawful use as a home, and to take direct or legal action if the notice is not obeyed.

Rooms let one by one

Council investigators found the house advertised on short-term letting websites including Airbnb and Booking.com, with bedrooms offered individually to paying guests. The image the council released shows the Booking.com page for “Gassiot House” on Gassiot Road, SW17 8LD, with a double bedroom and a shared kitchen in the photographs and a guest score of 6.0 from 11 reviews.

In London a home can be let for short stays for up to 90 nights a year without planning permission. Beyond that, the council says, the use changes, and in this case it meant the loss of a family-sized home along with more comings and goings, noise and disturbance, and pressure on the bins and waste arrangements at the house.

Letters went unanswered

Officers first visited in March, after concerns were raised about how the house was being used. Once the evidence showed the 90-night threshold had been passed, the council wrote to the owner and the tenant in July asking for the short lets to stop within 14 days. According to the committee report, no reply came and the lets carried on.

Cllr Robert Morritt, Leader of Wandsworth Council, said: “People can’t just change the use of residential homes without permission, so we’re sending a strong message that breaches of planning rules will be taken seriously.

“At a time when family-sized homes are so important in Wandsworth, we will take action when we find properties are being used in this way, and we’ll stand up for residents when unauthorised intensified use is affecting neighbours.”

The council says Gassiot Road is the latest of several properties to face this kind of action. Wandsworth’s Local Plan sets out to protect the borough’s existing housing and resists homes being turned into short-term holiday accommodation.

Think a house near you is a short let?

Residents who suspect a breach of planning control can report it to the council’s planning enforcement team, which looks into building work done without permission and material changes in how land or buildings are used. Reports go through the council’s planning enforcement page.