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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Second-home owners in Gwynedd face 150% council tax premium

A house for sale overlooking the beach at Morfa Nefyn, Gwynedd.
A house for sale overlooking the beach at Morfa Nefyn, Gwynedd. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Second-home owners in north Wales face a possible 150% premium on council tax bills next year with the extra £3m raised set to be used to ease the area’s spiralling homelessness crisis.

Gwynedd council’s housing lead said it was “immoral” for people to have more than one home while other people had nowhere to live and blamed the UK and Welsh governments.

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