When locals can’t get homes because outsiders have brought them up only to turn up a couple weeks in the year then it needs looking at. Then you have those that buy them up to rent them out. The irony is that it doesn’t matter how hard the locals work they still can’t afford to buy a home. The fact that for holiday home to work you need the locals ….
Like every hospital in the UK.
They’re called Arctic Rolls as well.
I don’t think every area in the UK has the same annual influx of tourists as we do in Cornwall, and we have the additional problem of being at the far end of the country. Treliske can’t cope with the local population outside the tourist season, and the tourists don’t bring extra funding.
Not an igloo to be had apparently...
Exactly
Hear hear. Seem to remember that aviation fuel is tax-exempt. Nobody needs to kill the planet to lay next to a swimming pool for a fortnight.
I certainly think there’s a need for addressing AirBnB like many other countries and cities are.
The good old days when only the rich went away, and the poor got a week in Blackpool if they were lucky?
I wouldn’t describe spending a week in Blackpool as lucky, far from it. My abiding memory of the place is seeing a heavily pregnant girl smoking and drinking and the whole place smelling of fried bacon on Sunday morning as I tried, in vain, to find an Observer.
This. I live in a small mid-Sussex village and there is a prominent dick head who has been complaining loudly for years about Londoners moving down and driving up prices so ‘locals’ like him can’t afford to buy. A couple of years ago he inherited his Mum’s house up the road………..and sold it to a family moving down from Wimbledon……..
Doesn't really help you if you're a recent graduate on a low salary just trying to buy a house though does it.
