Thursday, 13 June 2019

Hike Second Homes Tax And Build On Green Belt, Says MP


The government should allow affordable homes to be built on “scrappy” land that has been “wrongly designated” as green belt and hike the stamp duty surcharge on people buying additional homes, one Labour MP has claimed. Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden Siobhain McDonagh railed against ministers for failing to tackle the housing crisis and dubbed their record on creating social homes “diabolical”, before setting out her own radical plan of action. She said: “First, it is time to burst the myth that the green belt is green and start using the non-green sites for homes. There are garage sites, waste plants and deserted scrublands all posing as green-belt land.” Read more on the Mortgage Strategy website.

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