The war on holiday lets has moved inland - with councillors at a landlocked city preparing to vote on taking action against homes being converted into investment properties.
Seaside towns and villages have been. Historic Cambridge is now considering cracking down on the practiceThe war on holiday lets has moved inland – with councillors at a landlocked city preparing to vote on taking action against homes being converted into investment properties.
Karen Young said the Labour-run city council needs to write to the government to call for more regulation, adding many rental properties were also a 'source of neighbourhood nuisance' as they were not in a suitable area or were of substandard quality. READ MORE: How villagers are going to battle across 30-mile stretch of coastline as they fight to ban wealthy townies from buying second homes Advertisement 'This has had the effect of taking out privately owned and rented property from the market for long-term living and putting it on the market for short-term and holiday lets and other temporary use.
Cllr Young also called for the council to use the city's Local Plan – which sets out the framework for future development of an area - to 'address these concerns'.There are around 52,000 households in Cambridge. Figures in December last year showed there were 2,158 properties classed as second homes, compared to 2,001 in 2021.
In April, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities announced a consultation into introducing planning permission for existing homes to be converted into short-term lets in tourist hotspots.
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