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Glamping pods and holiday cottages to be built near famous steam railway walesonline.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from walesonline.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MARKET forces have left communities in Carmarthenshire “defenceless” against the rise of second homes, a member of the council’s administration has said. Cllr Cefin Campbell’s motion calling for a clampdown on second homes and holiday homes was passed at a meeting of full council, although around a quarter of the county’s 74 councillors did not vote after declaring an interest in the subject. The motion said 1,118 homes in Carmarthenshire were not the sole or main dwelling of the owner – up to 40 per cent in some areas – which was pricing out local people. It welcomed a Welsh Government intention to add a one per cent increase in land transaction tax on the purchase of a second home, but said more measures were needed. ....