They warn too many residential homes are being converted into properties used solely for short-term tourist rentals, driving up the cost of housing and crippling short-staffed businesses because working people can’t afford to live nearby.
An amendment to the Government’s Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill has been signed by 25 Tory backbenchers including North Devon MP Selaine Saxby, who said: “The tourist economy is vital to us but things have got completely out of balance.”
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