Cast_Iron wrote:
Given the that the increased road congestion in Friday and Sunday
evenings is caused by many people going and from to their country
cottages for the weekend, isn't it time that second homes attracted a
punative rate of council tax?

Is it not mostly caused by either:

(a) people who work in the South-East during the week travelling home for
the weekend, or

(b) people visiting friends and relatives for the weekend

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