'We saw this all coming years ago. I’m surprised that it took so long for some people to realise how bad it was'
The tourism industry is at once the lifeblood of Lakeland villages and their Achilles Heel: the local economy relies on tourists, but the lucrative holiday let and Airbnb market has removed properties from the private rental market, meaning that there is nowhere affordable left for local people to live. There is also an acute social housing shortage.he was concerned that “these communities will die” if nothing is done.
“It makes me really angry,” Winson says. “It feels like the managed decline of communities. I remember when I was a teenager, my parents told me to get my name on the list to take over their social house when they die. The fact that people like me can’t afford to live around here or stay around here was imprinted on me early on.”
“If you speak out about the problems tourism causes, you’re seen as a troublemaker,” he says, wiping his eyes behind his sunglasses. What has brought someone to tears in front of a journalist he has never met? In 2020, after a Section 21 no-fault eviction, he was forced from a home he had lived in for years so it could be turned into a holiday let.
written in 1835 – he suggested that the area should become “a sort of national property”. However, the Romantic poet warned against railways and roads which would cause them to become overburdened. Standing on the village green in Grasmere with local people queueing up to speak to him, he said: “As far as planning is concerned, a permanent home, a second home and a holiday let are all the same thing, and you can move from one to another without asking anybody’s permission. But you shouldn’t be able to.”for two new planning categories to be created: second home and holiday let, alongside permanent dwelling.
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