Property News · June 1, 2016

‘English out’: Cornwall’s fightback against second homes


Cornwall is one of the most deprived areas in western Europe, despite its luxury holiday homes – with house prices way beyond the reach of young locals. Now popular Cornish tourist destinations are rising up against the incomersThis summer, as holidaymakers walk along the Atlantic-facing cliffs around St Just, the nearest town to Land’s End in west Cornwall, they will come across a sign that says: “English out.” It keeps being retouched. It is one of the reminders that there are still tensions between the annual flood of incomers and the Cornish, who were granted the same Celtic minority status as the Scots, Irish and Welsh in 2014. Related: ‘We’re being slowly suffocated’: UK readers on the problem of second homes Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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