Property News · July 23, 2017

Second home owners are destroying rural economies | Letters


Incomers raise property prices and have little respect for history and cultureThe difficulties communities in rural England face in preserving their integrity will strike a chord west of Offa’s Dyke (“Why rural Britain needs a new deal”, Special Report).The problems described in your report are exacerbated in large parts of rural Wales, where the language and culture are under enormous pressure from a seemingly endless tide of second homers and elderly English retirees, whose main impact is to price local youngsters out of the housing market. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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