BRADFORD has more than 100 holiday homes and a higher percentage than York, Leeds and parts of Devon, new figures show.

The 2021 census figures from the Office for National Statistics shows the city and district had approximately 130 holiday homes when the census was taken in March of that year.

Holiday let numbers are rounded to the nearest five and any under 10 are suppressed.

It meant there were 0.6 holiday homes for every 1,000 dwellings in the area and 0.47 per cent of all properties in Bradford are categorised in this way.

This is higher than York (0.46), Mid Devon (0.45), Liverpool (0.32), Selby (0.31), Leeds (0.21) and Manchester (0.18).

The holiday homes come from three main areas in the Bradford district.

The largest share are in Addingham and Ilkley Moor (0.68), which is a larger percentage than Harrogate (0.67) and slightly below West Devon (0.87).

There is 0.41 per cent in Haworth and Oxenhope and then 0.33 in Baildon North.

In the UK, more than 75,000 addresses were used as holiday homes in 2021 – of these, around 5,805 were based in Yorkshire and The Humber, equating to 2.3 per 1,000 dwellings.

The Isles of Scilly had the highest proportion of holiday homes in the UK, though it has a very small number of total households.

Excluding the Isles of Scilly, South Hams in Devon had the highest rate of holiday homes, at 44.1 per 1,000 dwellings.

This was followed by similarly touristy areas – Gwynedd, which contains Snowdonia in north Wales, North Norfolk and Anglesey.

Dan Wilson Craw, deputy director at Generation Rent, said: "Airbnb has made owning a holiday home more lucrative and we saw a huge increase over the pandemic when international travel was suspended for much of 2021.

"There is fierce competition for the limited number of homes coming on the market and it is pricing out people who grew up in these communities and want to work in the tourist industries Airbnb is meant to be supporting."

He has called on local authorities to license holiday let operators and introduce higher council tax on second homes.

The deputy director also urged the Government to remove "tax perks which make holiday lets even more profitable than normal tenancies".

A Government spokesperson said it has already introduced a higher rate of stamp duty for second properties, closed tax loopholes on holiday lets in April, and will give councils the power to apply a council tax premium of up to 100 per cent on second homes through the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.

They added: "We are taking action to combat the adverse impact that second homes can have on local communities, particularly in tourist areas."