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Rapid Evidence Assessment of the Research Literature on the Purchase and Use of Second Homes Table 7: Districts with the Highest Proportion of Second Homes in 2006 Rank Order 36 Local Authority County/Region Proportion of Second Homes 1 City of London London 26.1% 2 Isles of Scilly Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 19.5% 3 South Hams Devon 10.1% 4 North Cornwall Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 9.7% 5 North Norfolk Norfolk 9.5% 6 Berwick-upon-Tweed Northumberland 9.2% 7 Penwith Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 8.0% 8 Kensington & Chelsea London 7.8% 9 Westminster London 7.8% 10 South Lakeland Cumbria 7.4% 11 Scarborough North Yorkshire 6.9% 12 Purbeck Dorset 6.9% 13 Great Yarmouth Norfolk 6.2% 14 West Somerset Somerset 5.7% 15 Eden Cumbria 5.4% 16 Chichester West Sussex 5.3% 17 West Dorset Dorset 5.3% 18 Isle of Wight UA Isle of Wight UA 5.1% 19 Caradon Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 4.8% 20 Alnwick Northumberland 4.6% 354 All England 1.1% Source: Savills (2007)
What is the geographical distribution of second homes across England, and what are the characteristics of places with a high concentration of second homes? 119. Tables 6 and 7 show that at a local authority level the locations with the highest proportions of second homes have remained fairly consistent in recent years. The ‘Top Three’ are the City of London, Isles of Scilly and South Hams in Devon each with more than ten per cent of the housing stock as second homes. Of the top twenty locations (Table 7), four are in Cornwall and three in London. Over a quarter of the housing stock in the City of London was classified as second homes in 2006, as was nearly eight per cent in Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster. 120. Figure 2 shows the high proportion of second homes in the South West, several coastal locations and London. As the CRC report (2006, p11) from which the map is taken suggested, “High proportions of the housing stock are second homes in much of South West England and Cumbria, with significant concentrations also in Northumberland, North Yorkshire, coastal East Anglia and parts of the south coast.” The report also noted the high levels of second homes in the City of London and several London boroughs. Figure 2: Second Homes as Proportion of the Housing Stock at Local Authority Level 2004/5 Source: CRC (2006) Evaluation of the use of reduced Council Tax discount from second homes by rural authorities 2004/5 (using ODPM Council Tax data) 37
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Page 3 and 4: Contents Foreword 7 Executive Summa
Page 5 and 6: Foreword by Professor Glen Bramley
Page 7 and 8: Executive Summary There is much dis
Page 9 and 10: Executive Summary There is a lack o
Page 11 and 12: Introduction 6. We have also applie
Page 13 and 14: How have second homes been defined
Page 15 and 16: Definitions used in the UK Census H
Page 17 and 18: 42. How have second homes been defi
Page 23 and 24: To what extent (if any) have second
Page 25 and 26: Number of Second Homes 85. To what
Page 27 and 28: Future trends To what extent (if an
Page 29 and 30: What specific factors attract peopl
Page 31 and 32: What specific factors attract peopl
Page 33: What is the geographical distributi
Page 37 and 38: 6. What are the social and demograp
Page 39 and 40: What are the social and demographic
Page 41 and 42: 7. Do households own more than one
Page 43 and 44: Has there been any improvement in t
Page 45 and 46: 9. What are the social and economic
Page 47 and 48: Social impacts 183. Gallent et al (
Page 49 and 50: What are the social and economic im
Page 51 and 52: 10. Evidence Gaps and Further Resea
Page 53 and 54: Evidence Gaps and Further Research
Page 59 and 60: References Communities and Local Go
Page 61 and 62: References Office of Population, Ce
Page 63 and 64: Appendix A Direct Line Sources Data
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