PUBLIC services must come before second home owners, Unison urged today in response to Pembrokeshire County Council’s budget consultation.
The union called for a higher council tax, including on long-term empty properties, and the subsidy for second home owners scrapped to fund Pembrokeshire’s £34.1 million gap.
Unison criticised the reduction of the second home tax premium from 200 to 150 per cent, describing it as “deeply disappointing” and estimating the £1.2m loss in the change of plans could close 60 per cent of libraries and day centres.
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Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK