P-06-1313 Allow exemptions to the 182-day occupancy rule to reduce harm to real Welsh self-catering businesses

 

This petition was submitted by Linda Suzanne Davies, having collected a total of 1,750 signatures.

 

Text of Petition:                    

The Trade Associations that represent genuine self-catering businesses in Wales (Wales Tourism Alliance, UK Hospitality Cymru and PASC UK Wales Branch) will meet Welsh Government with a view to agreeing mitigation measures to reduce the harm that the introduction of the 182-day occupancy rule will cause real Welsh-owned self-catering businesses. These are not second homes or casual lets. Over 30% of these businesses have said that they will have to close or sell without these exemptions.

 

Additional Information:

The Body of Evidence of harm: https://www.pascuk.co.uk/wales-182-days-reports/

 

KEY ASKS

 

- The day count not to start from April 22, ie retrospectively.

- An appeal process

 

EXEMPTIONS

 

- Lets limited by planning permission

- Lets that lie within the curtilage of a primary residence

- Multiple units on one site can average occupancy across the units.

- Where the units are not housing stock withdrawn from the market but can be proved through recorded planning and building control that they have been created from vacant commercial or agricultural buildings or farm diversification.

- The property is run by a charity

- Weeks given by owners to charities should count towards days let.

- If your short-let business is VAT rated

- Review of 182 days if Wales officially goes into recession, pandemics or forced local closure.

- Period of grace for new business entrants

 

DISPENSATION

 

Account taken of days to carry out repairs/property improvements or for ill-health or caring responsibilities.

 

 

 

 

Status

This petition was considered completed by the Petitions Committee at its meeting on 03/07/2023.

 

The Committee considered the petition and agreed that as the Council Tax (Exceptions to Higher Amounts) (Wales) Regulations 2023 have now been implemented there is no further action the Committee can take. Members thanked the petitioner and closed the petition.

 

Full details of the consideration of this petition by the Committee and related documents can be seen on the Meetings tab above.

It was first considered by the Petitions Committee on 09/01/2023.

 

 

 

 

Senedd Constituency and Region

• Montgomeryshire
• Mid and West Wales

 

 

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