In the picturesque seaside village of Hope Cove, second home ownership is running at an alarming 80%. š thetimes.co.uk/article/the-deā¦
The ageing residents who remain in the south Devon parish fear that the march of the holiday home is increasing. āThe place is like a graveyard [out of holiday season],ā said retiree Tom Windle, who moved to the parish in 2009.ā ā
In winter the dark streets are often only punctuated by lights in the windows of every third or fourth house in a row.ā ā
Windle, who at 70 describes himself as āone of the younger onesā, said: āThere has been no attempt to bring in young families or anything that is affordable. It has always been a question of āletās knock down and build holiday homesā.āā ā
Meanwhile, locals in some of Britainās most popular holiday destinations have been left homeless by soaring property prices and the staycation boom as landlords evict tenants to put the house on Airbnb. thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-aā¦
āThere are just 19 properties you can rent long-term in the whole of South Hams on Rightmove, yet there are 300 advertised on Airbnb in Salcombe,ā said Anthony Mangnall, the Conservative MP for Totnes.
āYet we have hospital staff who canāt find anywhere to live, RNLI [Royal National Lifeboat Institution] crew that canāt live in the town they serve. This is starting to become dangerous.ā Read more: thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-aā¦
@thetimes Itās looking like there is an underlying gentrification project going on. In this case though, there is a nice village in a beauty spot and the bigger idea would be for original residents to move on and leave this to become a high class holiday village .
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@thetimes Rich townies move/retire to villages & push property prices up, making them unaffordable for locals, then moan about holiday homes bought by other rich townies killing off villages...