MHK says owners of run down buildings should have rates increased

An MHK says owners of run down buildings should ‘no longer’ have their rates payments suspended.

Jason Moorhouse who represents Arbory, Castletown and Malew, is putting forward a motion to Tynwald to make owners pay higher rates on properties that are ‘uninhabitable’.

He is suggesting an increase of 20 per cent ‘compounded’ to try and encourage homeowners of dilapidated houses to renovate.

Mr Moorhouse says there are 6,000 empty properties on the Island and this motion would be a ‘doable’ solution: