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Policy Advice on Second Homes in Rural Areas
Funded by the Countryside Agency in 2002
The study focused on current and future policy options for dealing with second homes in rural England. It looked at both land-use planning and fiscal measures that might be used to regulate second home numbers or minimise their potentially negative impacts in some rural areas.
- People
Professor Nick Gallent
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Dr Alan Mace
Send Alan an email- Outputs
The following outputs followed on from the study of second homes in England. A separate set of outputs are associated with a parallel study undertaken in Wales:
Nick Gallent, Alan Mace and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Second Homes: European Perspectives and UK Policies, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005 (ISBN 0-7546-4239-9)
Nick Gallent, Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Alan Mace, Second Homes and Planning Control in Wales, in Bayreuther Geographische Arbeiten 26, 2005 (ISSN 3-9809181-5-7), pp. 53-63
Nick Gallent, Alan Mace and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Second Homes: A New Framework for Policy, in Town Planning Review 75(3), 2004 (ISSN 0041-0020), pp. 287-308
Nick Gallent, Alan Mace and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Second Homes in England, in Town and Country Planning 72(2), 2003 (ISSN 0040-9960)
Nick Gallent, Alan Mace and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Second Homes: a Plan of Action?, in Town and Country Planning 23-24, 2003 (ISSN 0040-9960)
Nick Gallent, Alan Mace and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Controlling Second Homes Through Planning, Leisuretourism.com, 2002
- Impact
When commissioning the project, the Countryside Agency wished to contribute to a policy debate concerning the Council Tax discount on registered second homes. This study showed that a discount (of at least ten per cent) resulted in local registration of second homes, making it easier for local authorities to accurately track second home numbers in their local areas, and plan to mitigate their impacts (perhaps through additional provision of affordable housing). Full removal of that discount would make this more difficult. The agency lobbied on this basis and an element of discount was retained.