Kensington and Chelsea has one of the highest proportions of second homes in the country.

The borough has 8,330 properties classed as second homes - or nearly one in ten of every property that can be charged council tax.

Only the City of London and the Isles of Scilly, off the coast of Cornwall, have higher proportions of second homes, although both these places have relatively small numbers of residents, meaning data for these two areas is often skewed.

Kensington and Chelsea therefore has the highest proportion of second homes of any densely-populated area in England.

In Westminster, the figure is 5.1%, and Hammersmith and Fulham also has an above-average proportion of second homes at 2.4%.

Nearly one in two second homes in Kensington and Chelsea are classed in the top two council tax bands G and H - reserved for the most expensive properties - compared to just under 40% of the borough as a whole.

Across London one home in every 70 is classed as a second home, according to analysis of government figures, with more than 250,000 second homes around the country.

According to a separate government survey, the most popular reason for having a second home was for holidays, followed by buying one as an investment.

The survey also revealed English homeowners had 376,000 second homes outside the UK, including 90,000 in France and 83,000 in Spain.