Council tax to double for 80 per cent of second homes

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Second home owners are running for the exit as tax changes bite

Wales led the way in tackling the problem of empty properties and priced-out locals – and now Jeremy Hunt has weighed inIn the first Covid-19 lockdown, Selaine Saxby noticed how empty her village had become. “I live on a close of 30 homes of which only five were occupied,” said Saxby, the Conservative MP for North Devon. Second homes were left vacant and holiday homes unlet as the pandemic spread, illustrating how much of the nation’s picturesqu…