Image source, Carmelo Garcia
- Author, Carmelo Garcia
- Role, Local Democracy Reporting Service
Residents living in some of the Cotswolds’ prettiest villages have said overtourism is causing huge problems for them.
Villagers in Bourton-on-the-Water and Bibury are suffering from a lack of parking, especially for coaches.
Bourton Parish Councillor Jon Wareing recently tabled a motion to get the council to accept that tourism is a problem for the village.
“As the tourism season ramps up, the inconsiderate behaviour of coach drivers continues to be reported by residents and business owners,” he said.
“The free-for-all chaos that many of us anticipated on the issue of coaches arriving in a rural location with no managed facilities for coach parking provision and a village infrastructure ill-suited to this otherwise excellent mode of transport seems to be unfolding,”…