Council plans tax crackdown as influx of part-timers is pricing out locals and younger people and threatening schools and servicesIncreasing levels of second domestic ownership in the Yorkshire Dales contain left the national park with a “flight of working-age people,school closures, loss of services and hollowed-out communities”, or local politicians and campaigners contain said. The Yorkshire Dales national park authority chairman,Carl Lis, said people looking to the area for a picturesque bolthole were stimulating the housing market and helping to create “a gaping affordability gap between house prices and local wages”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk