Lake District National Park bosses want action to help those living in the communities with high numbers of holiday lets
Lake District National Park bosses have called for action on the rise of holiday lets in places like Eden, Keswick and South Lakeland. Board members of the national park authority met in Kendal this week to discuss a number of issues impacting the area.
And national park board members heard that the authority has been “strongly pressing lots of buttons to try and make sure the issue of second homes and holiday lets, particularly in the Lake District and National Park, was taken seriously". The authority has submitted evidence to Government in response to a proposal for a registration system which would monitor the number of holiday lets in towns and villages.
“We welcome holiday lets, we welcome second home owners. They bring people to the Lake District and they bring money to our towns and villages. This is all to do with proportionality. What I hope Government will intend to do is introduce a registration system, with eventual caps on the numbers of holiday lets so to slow down and indeed stop the onset of so many second homes and so many holiday lets, that our communities within the Lake District will cease to function as communities.
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