There was living space for 13 families in this one house
Posted on 05/08/2016 2:41:37 PM PDT by Lorianne
Councils across the UK are set to consider banning people who already own homes from buying holiday cottages after a historic vote yesterday.
More than 80 per cent of voters in St Ives, Cornwall, backed proposals that will mean new housing developments will only get planning permission if homes there are reserved for full-time residents.
And now councils in the Lake District, Derbyshire Dales, north Devon and the Isle of Wight are all looking at schemes to prevent outsiders buying holiday homes.
But ministers are poised to oppose the ban, saying it could be regarded as unfair and discriminatory.
Tory MP Mark Garnier told The Times: 'The only home I own is in St Ives but I live in rented properties elsewhere. Would it be considered as a second home?
'I worry that it is discriminatory - that one person can buy a home but another can't.'
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England is facing the extinction of its culture.
The left hates private property and wants to eliminate it. This gets them one step closer.
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The government already does own all real estate. If you doubt me, stop paying your property taxes and see what happens.
But still no limit on how many women an immigrant man can own in uk?
The Muslim immigrants need the houses
I must confess to one more sin. When I bought my house I had only one acre. Later, fearing encroachment, I bought the additional acre. High time for the reeducation camp.
I read in a UK paper that one gent got a subsidy for expenses driving from wife No 1 to Wife No 2.
I watched part of Doctor Zhivago recently, in which the good Doctor is forced by the Communists to share his large house with others for that VERY reason. The woman the Commies appoint to be the mistress of the house has that sweet, forgiving, happy go lucky "Hitlery" kind of personality, if you get what I mean.
My point is, you are exactly right - it's what they do - appropriate your property, scold you if you object, and scold you for not having more to give to "the people".
Those services are typically paid for by property taxes, which absentee owners also pay.
What is timeshare activity like in Britain? A house unused 11 months a year isn’t reaping any benefit to the owner either during those 11 months. It would seem that rentals to vacation tenants, students, etc. could be more profitable.
a newbie pile on huh.
I can’t speak to that. I’ve visited a few communities that we’re having problems with exploding numbers of holiday homes back in the 90’s and it seemed that time sharing was not going on. I tried to rent a home to prolong my visit to the Isle of Wight and the holiday home owners uniformly acted as if I were gibbering at them in a diaper. They couldn’t understand why I thought they would trust a stranger in their homes. That combined with the fact that they don’t take a vacation there so much as use it on random weekends gives me the impression that it’s a tiny market.
Dawn French did a comedy set in Cornwall that had a running theme of feuds between holiday home owners and locals. That was back in 95 or so. These aren’t new problems. The longer problems go on without a solution the better a drastic solution like banning holiday homes seems.
Sounds like a British culture problem. Americans would be less likely to pass up the pecuniary benefit. The whole idea of timeshare is quite popular in America. You buy 1/26 of an interest in a property and then get the rights to use it for 2 weeks a year, etc.
And yes, if they want to be able to pop in any time they want, then they probably have to own it outright. Some properties can be partitioned and part of it rented, so that if the owner came the owner would still have quarters too.
British culture problem — I’ve never heard of such a complaint in America.
Having worked in construction I have seen many homes. Some small and some huge. For myself, I don’t need a huge home. What others want and can afford is their business. More power to ‘em.
Lol. Yes. Definitely a British culture problem. When I offered to pay handsomely one of them told me “Americans think they can buy everything!” It wasn’t the only problem I had but I only wanted to extend my visit rather than move.
There was living space for 13 families in this one house
What he says makes a lot of sense, in contrast to most of the other comments on the thread.
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