IMPOSSIBLEE to BUY - Cornwall cottages

StevieJ

lostinrates wrote: »

As an undergrad I had to write a paper on, IIRC a comparison of prey and preditor reproproductive adaptions, or some thing similar. As an equine scientist horse was an easy choice of prey, and it was clear dog would have lots of research behind it, so choosing the animals wasn't difficult.
The first, idle internet searches for were however remarkably educational :eek:.

Try searching for George Orwells - Animal farm :eek:

purch

Holiday (Cottages) Homes in the South West are as big a blight on the local housing market as over leveraged BTL is in many other parts of the country.

Davesnave

StevieJ wrote: »

Try searching for George Orwells - Animal farm :eek:

Hmmm....I've mentioned this before, but when the school's first computer suite was in its infancy, a young teacher decided to get his class to write a review of the film 'The Sheep Pig' by !!!!!! King Smith, otherwise known on video as 'Babe.'

You can bet those kids' first Google experience was a goodie!:rotfl:

ninky_2

dervish wrote: »

Why are people from not in Cornwall not allowed to buy holiday cottages in Cornwall?

Is this actually legal?

Thought you would be all for this Dervish, aren't you anti-immigration?

StevieJ

devils_advocate wrote: »

Cottaging in Looe? Oh dear.You can get arrested for that.

Wham, Bam thankyou Man

churchrat

lostinrates wrote: »

" As an equine scientist horse ".

I am very impressed that you can manage a keyboard with those hooves:T

lostinrates

churchrat wrote: »

I am very impressed that you can manage a keyboard with those hooves:T

You haven't noticed my frequent typos then? I still have an advantage over marine biologists

dervish

ninky wrote: »

Thought you would be all for this Dervish, aren't you anti-immigration?

irrelevant :rolleyes:

lostinrates

dervish wrote: »

irrelevant :rolleyes:

Not really. Its the same thing on a local scale. I hope all those people with holiday homes in Cornwall are learning Cornish!

PasturesNew

OK, long thread now, let's take Cornwall.

In Cornwall there are hundreds and hundreds of properties you could buy, but the places you have picked are small villages that have been killed by outsiders having them as a holiday home.

Imagine if you were the ONLY person in your whole village most of the winter... the only person paying council tax for the whole village because everybody else had registered their holiday home for business rates.

Imagine if you could no longer get a loaf of bread because the bakery now sells art, you can't get petrol because what was the garage now sells buckets/spades. Your kids can't go to school because the school was closed because not enough people were living there any more. Your job went because where you worked closed and was sold off as an art gallery and cafe open April-Spetember only.

The "money we are bringing into the area" isn't. It's actually going to the richer/probably London-based property owners. It's not going into the local economy. How can 3 newspapers 4x per year compare with a real family living in an area and buying ALL their needs EVERY week? Many holiday home owners even bring their food with them, from Waitrose.

You're the only person in the whole village, that makes the area a target for break-ins as thieves would know of "a whole village just ripe for the taking, nobody's ever about".

I know somebody who bought a house in such a place, one side of her it was a constant changeover of holidaymakers as it was rented out - they had no idea of the deeds/boundaries and would walk over her garden to get to their front door - and bring two cars and park in her space... there was no parking for over half a mile and she'd specifically bought a house with a parking space on the deeds that belonged to her. The other side turned out to be rich Londoners who were there about 4 weekends a year. There was no community, no life, the place was virtually closed 4 months of the year. She had to sell up as she could make no friends there.

In popular places: Polperro, Port Isaac, etc, holiday homes can account for 75% of all houses! That sucks 75% of a community's life out of it. Buses stop running, libraries close, garages close, shops close, schools close.

It's ethnic cleansing of the poorer as the richer move in.

And Cornwall is a long way away from anything else. It's not like these people have to move 10 miles away for a home/job, it's more like 100 miles.