{"id":92296,"date":"2018-06-24T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/in-desirable-southwold-locals-rise-up-against-blight-of-empty-holiday-homes\/"},"modified":"2018-06-24T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T09:03:19","slug":"in-desirable-southwold-locals-rise-up-against-blight-of-empty-holiday-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/in-desirable-southwold-locals-rise-up-against-blight-of-empty-holiday-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"In desirable Southwold, locals rise up against blight of empty holiday homes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nProperty investors accused of squeezing the life out of picturesque Suffolk resort and distorting economy\u201cWe don\u2019t wish to be sounding nimby, or that we\u2019re not keeping up with the times,\u201d worries Will Windell, a Southwold councillor, \u201cbut you need to see the effect that this stuff has in a real way on a small community.\u201d The stuff, for the full-time residents of Suffolk\u2019s picturesque coastal town, is the news that second-home owners in the area are exploiting a legal loophole to dodge council tax. \u201cWe\u2019re subsidising all the local services,\u201d says Windell, exasperated, in an impromptu meeting conducted over a dining table. \u201cWe pay for the refuse collection and the roads; these guys don\u2019t, and it\u2019s distorting the local economy.\u201dEarlier this month David Beavan, a retired farmer and Liberal Democrat candidate in the upcoming Southwold and Reydon byelection for the district council, researched Southwold\u2019s most desirable streets \u2013 rows of grand townhouses and charming cottages closest to the beach \u2013 and discovered that 260 properties were registered as small businesses, intended as holiday lets for a minimum of 140 days per year and without any obligation to fulfil that requirement or to then pay any council tax. According to his follow-up survey, around 80% of those houses stood empty most of the time. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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