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On June 22, the U.S. Supreme Court handed privacy rights activists a major win by ruling it unconstitutional for police to demand guest information from hotels and lodging providers like Airbnb without a warrant.The 5-4 decision dismisses a Los Angeles municipal code statute that requires lodging providers to immediately turn over private guest information. Under penalty of arrest, the city code demanded lodging providers give police on-demand access to guest’s names, home addresses, room numbers, payment information, identification and license plate numbers. Under the code, law enforcement did not need to provide a reason for the request and hotels had to keep data for 90 days.The decision is likely to have an impact on sharing economy lodging sites like Airbnb. According to a release from Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer rights advocacy group, Santa Monica, Calif., has already passed legislation demanding similar guest data from home-sharing hosts, and San Francisco is considering similar legislation supported by Supervisors David Campos, Eric Mar and John Avalos.Grappling with home sharing is not new for San Francisco, where in 2014 officials passed a law requiring each host to hold at least $500,000 in liability insurance, pay hotel taxes, comply with housing codes, be listed in a registry and report the number of rented days annually.The court’s decision to uphold a ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Los Angeles v. Patel may prompt a reversal on such regulatory restrictions and pending legislation.Siding with hotel owners who sued Los Angeles in 2003, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that before hotel operators were compelled by the law, they had a right to object seizures in front of a judge.“We hold that the provision of the Los Angeles Municipal Code that requires hotel operators to make their registries available to the police on demand is facially unconstitutional because it penalizes them for declining to turn over their records without affording them any opportunity for precompliance review,” Sotomayor said.In its argument, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office had defended its stance, saying the law enabled police to halt sex trafficking and narcotics sales. Justices supporting the L.A. ordinance argued that obtaining warrants for guest information were prone to be impractical and costly in large cities like Los Angeles.

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What grounds can planning be refused?

The more common reasons for refusal are: Your project would overshadow a neighbour, causing them loss of light. Your building or structure overlooks other homes, causing loss of privacy. The appearance would be out of character with the existing property.

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Planning permission will generally be granted providing the proposed work meets all of the relevant local policies and your council's Local Plan if applicable.

The more common reasons for refusal are:

Your project would overshadow a neighbour, causing them loss of light

Your building or structure overlooks other homes, causing loss of privacy

The appearance would be out of character with the existing property

Overdevelopment in the local area

If it's considered to adversely impact on the safety of a public highway

You have specified the use of hazardous materials

There will be an impact upon trees or nature conservation such as bats or rare newts

Your property is a listed building or in a conservation area

However, your application cannot be rejected on grounds of:

The time it will take to do the work and any disruption to your neighbours while it is underway Your planning history - if permission was refused for a previous project, this won’t affect your current application The opinion of a neighbour if this is not a relevant planning policy issue - for example if they are concerned over noise or just don’t like the appearance and think the extension is too large