Ministers have invited businesses, tourism bodies and concerned members of the public to submit evidence to an inquiry into short-term letting, when properties are offered to rent for a period of weeks or days.
It comes after MPs warned the practice was pushing up house prices, encouraging crime and driving residents out of neighbourhoods.
Tim Farron, who represents picturesque Westmorland and Lonsdale in Cumbria, said last night: “It is very clear that there is a massive problem and its…