A TEN per cent council tax discount on second homes will likely be scrapped by Argyll and Bute Council to raise over more than £380,000 for affordable housing.
The Oban Times recently revealed that Argyll and Bute Council estimates cuts of up to £40 million over the next three years to plug a projected black hole in its budget.
A budgetary outlook report, presented to the Policy and Resources Committee on October 27, was updated to reflect ‘a worsening position’ in Scottish Government funding. The report said: ‘The funding gap estimated over the three year period 2017-18 to 2019-20 has been revised to be between £18.2million and £39.9m, with a gap of between £4m and £13.1m in 2017-18.’