#21

Allow it but with a v. hefty tax that goes directly back to the community

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#22

Honest question: what would be the best option for accommodation for someone visiting a sea-side town in the UK but not wanting to push out locals? Would it be a hotel/hostel?

#23

Caravan maybe? Or a yurt etc?

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#24

so you mean avoiding holiday homes, air BNBs etc? I dunno, the problem is more about local authorities and greedy developers I think. I wouldn’t feel too guilty about a weekend in a cottage somewhere I don’t think. Maybe I’m wrong?

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#25

Campsite. Or a proper b&b/guesthouse rather than a holiday let.

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#26

With all this stuff, landlordism, second homes, airbnb etc it needs government legislation to control and disincentivize it and not relying on the moral fortitude of Mr and Mrs Smith to stop investing their money in property rather than a 0% interest rate savings account. Don’t really get the ire at people that do it (sure if you’re an unscrupulous slum landlord or something).

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#27

The problem around here isn’t that airbnb has pushed up house prices (the Londoners have done that), more that the transient nature of them has damaged local communities. If that cottage was part of a group of say, half a dozen, and every other weekend a stag do stayed at that cottage and made noise until all hours, that’s a problem. Where properties have been designated by the council as holiday lets, that impact of kind of thing has been taken into account.

There’s an airbnb just over the back from us which supposedly sleeps about twenty. We can hear the noise from about a block away, so heaven knows what it’s like for the actual neighbours.

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#28

Who’s apparently Cornish I found out today (she’s doing a Brighton Festival thing with Gwenno that I’m off to see at the weekend), which could explain how she got involved in the first place

#29

Well talking specifically about the chapel in the article, it doesn’t look the local authorities give a shit. And it has a lot of local history associated with it which makes it even more annoying.

#30

Pal of mine bought a lovely cottagey place in the lake district, was showing me the other week the bbq area and the outdoor speaker system they’d installed. Rrrrrright.

#31

I think local authorities are slowly coming around to the realisation that they shoudn’t have ignored the issue for so long, for sure. How quickly they come around to that probably is linked to how many second homes the councilors have


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#32

She was a school friend of Jenkin’s stepson, who plays her boyfriend in the film.

#33

Utterly depressing.

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#34

This was in the paper at the weekend, too

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