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DoomsdaysCWSecond homes for sale treble after council tax hikeby Gareth Pennant September 6, 2024"New rules were introduced by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Welsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Welsh</a> government with the aim of making it easier for people to afford homes in the area where they grew up."To help achieve this, powers were given to local authorities to charge a premium of up to 300% on top of the normal council tax rate for those who own a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SecondHome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SecondHome</a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wales</a>."It has become a thorny issue, especially in coastal areas and beauty spots along the west coast."Cyngor Gwynedd has long been accused of 'playing Russian roulette' by holiday home owners and tourism boards after it imposed a 250% premium on council tax for these properties."Earlier this year, it went a step further and announced plans for any new second homes to be subject to planning consent, with these rules coming into force on 1 September."It argued that the area faced a 'huge <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HousingCrisis</a>', with many young people backing the move, saying <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wealthy</a> second home owners were pricing them out of the market." Read more: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl52jz73vo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl52jz73vo</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IncomeInequity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IncomeInequity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AffordableHousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AffordableHousing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SecondHomes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SecondHomes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TaxTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaxTheRich</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayWhat will be the impact of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MichaelGove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MichaelGove</a>'s planned restriction on <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/secondhome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#secondhome</a> owners renting to others on short-terms lets?Unsurprisingly the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/toursim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#toursim</a> industry sees it as a curtailment of their business model, while given the relaxation of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/housebuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#housebuilding</a> targets (apparently because <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tory</a> party members don't like them) & NIMBY resistance to new houses, keeping AirB&B out of your village, is unlikely to increase the stock of <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/affordable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#affordable</a> housing.So what is the answer to the rural <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/housingcrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#housingcrisis</a>?

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