{"id":392024,"date":"2025-09-02T13:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/392024\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:45:19","slug":"reform-uks-deputy-leader-richard-tice-grilled-by-bbc-local-radio-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/392024\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK&#8217;s deputy leader Richard Tice grilled by BBC local radio stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Council tax on second homes is damaging property values, Tice sayspublished at 12:46 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>12:46 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><strong>Zhara Simpson<\/strong><br \/>BBC South West<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his conversation with <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">BBC Radio Cornwall<\/b>, Tice says the double council tax on second homes is &#8220;damaging property values&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Reform UK deputy leader says people in areas where the tax levy was introduced, including in Cornwall, are being led to put their houses on the market, which in turn means fewer people are visiting tourist areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All the evidence I\u2019m hearing about doubling council tax is that it\u2019s being counterproductive,&#8221; he says, adding: &#8220;Sometimes you get what\u2019s called the law of unintended consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tice also says Reform\u2019s aim is to prioritise brownfield land to tackle the local housing crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The initial focus should be on regenerating brownfield sites, regenerating villages, and towns and where you need to use non-brownfield sites, sometimes what they call grey areas, as opposed to green field, then those have got to be carefully and sensitively looked at.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Council tax on second homes is damaging property values, Tice sayspublished at 12:46 British Summer Time 12:46 BST&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-392024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115135009545353616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}