'Tourists are turning our town into a THEME PARK': Cornish seaside town St Ives is 侵略（する）／超過（する） with staycationers and second home owners - with 'every square metre' 存在 turned into holiday lets

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The Cornish seaside town of St Ives has been turned into a '主題 park' after 存在 押し寄せる／沼地d by tourists with 地元のs 存在 立ち退かせるd to 解放する／自由な up Airbnb 賃貸しのs, it 現れるd today.

Homes for sale in the town, 特に those on the harbourside, now 範囲 between £700,000 and £1million, with the?普通の／平均（する） price now at £440,000, more than 17 times the 普通の／平均（する） salary of Cornwall's year-一連の会議、交渉／完成する 居住（者）s.

Families who have lived in St Ives for 世代s are 存在 軍隊d out as millionaires bank up land or homes, renting them out for up to £7,000-a-week.

'At times, people in the town feel that they are just operatives in a 主題 park,' said Stefan Harkon, a St Ives RNLI lifeguard for many years, 追加するing: 'We work in an area but we can't live in it.'

'It's the 法律 that needs to be changed,' said Jo Howard. 'The （法などの）抜け穴 on second homes not 支払う／賃金ing 会議 税金 or 商売／仕事 率 must be の近くにd and a 観光旅行，事業 税金 brought in on second homes. 権利 now it feels like a 圧力 cooker that （機の）カム to the boil with Covid and the G7 首脳会議. People are telling us they're 存在 立ち退かせるd from their homes to make way for Airbnbs.'

There is a growing （選挙などの）運動をする to bring in a '観光旅行，事業 税金' for those buying second homes and a 限界 on Airbnb 所有物／資産／財産s in a town where up to a third of children on one 広い地所 live in poverty.?

'We have a town where the rich people come to on holiday, when in some part of St Ives more than a third of children live below the bread line,' Camilla Dixon, the co-創立者 of the First Not Second Homes （選挙などの）運動をする group, said.?

'It is having a detrimental 影響. We 使い果たすd our social 住宅 在庫／株 when they were sold in the 80s. Because the value of land has gone up, developers have been land-grabbing and land banking to make more money. It means 本物の social 住宅 開発 are 存在 定価つきの out.'

She 追加するd: 'It became even more obvious during the pandemic when it all got out of 手渡す. Now everyone's building 拡張s, 変えるing lofts and every square metre they can to turn it all into holiday lets. The 控訴，上告 to make money that way is just far too tempting.'

The （選挙などの）運動をする group, which has held silent social-distancing-compliant 平和的な 抗議するs on The Island throughout the pandemic and in the run-up to the G7 首脳会議 in 隣人ing Carbis Bay last June, is calling for （犯罪の）一味 盗品故買者ing to give 優先 to 地元の people over out-of-郡 incomers, more social and affordable 住宅 to be built and, more importantly, more political かかわり合い at all levels to を取り引きする the second homes and 非，不，無-税金 支払う／賃金ing holiday lets 問題／発行する.

St Ives Town 会議 認める there is not much it can do with its tiny 予算 and even bigger 強制s but 主張するd it will review its neighbourhood 計画（する） and the 衝撃 of 観光旅行，事業.

It is also ロビーing Cornwall 会議 to let it develop land the larger 当局 is sitting on even though it has been （ーのために）とっておくd for social 住宅, and is （選挙などの）運動をするing for a 限界 on Airbnbs in hotspots like St Ives as has happened in places such as Amsterdam or Barcelona.

The 観光旅行，事業 産業 accounts for around 2,800 職業s in St Ives, which is almost one in four people who live there

Around 540,000 day trippers and more than 220,000 staying tourists visit St Ives in Cornwall every year

Holidaymakers walk the 狭くする streets of St Ives, which has been a popular tourist 目的地 since Victorian times

Camilla Dixon (left), the co-創立者 of the First Not Second Homes （選挙などの）運動をする group, said second homes are 'not good for the economy'; while Jo Howard (権利) said people are 'telling us they're 存在 立ち退かせるd from their homes to make way for Airbnbs'

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The 問題／発行する of second homes in St Ives is so 激烈な／緊急の that in 2016 居住（者）s 投票（する）d to 禁止（する） new-build 住宅 from 存在 second-homes, with 83 per cent in favour. によれば Rightmove, 普通の／平均（する） house prices in the town are now at £440,000, more than 17 times the median 年次の 収入s of someone in Cornwall.

Houses for sale in the town, 特に those on the harbourside, 定期的に appear for sale with price tags 範囲ing up to £700,000 or £1million.

にもかかわらず its £1million homes overlooking the harbour or Porthmeor Beach, St Ives sadly 誇るs some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Cornwall. Some 36 pe r cent of children living on the Penbeagle 広い地所 live in poverty. That's 92 children out of the 255 living there.

によれば the Children's Society 攻撃を受けやすい children in Cornwall are more likely to receive 解放する／自由な school meals than five years ago. Data from the Department of Education shows that by the end of the 2020-21 school year, 57 per cent of Cornwall's children in need were 適格の for 解放する／自由な school meals - up from 40 per cent at the same point in 2016-17.

St Ives also 直面するs a 不足 of 賃貸しのs; in 2021, while there were more than 1,000 所有物／資産／財産s in the town 利用できる for short-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 holiday let, there was only one long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 house 利用できる to rent.

How can most of those who live on some of the poorest 広い地所s like Penbeagle, afford to stay a week at Sunset House, the former 会議 house 破壊するd to make way for a £6m house overlooking Porthmeor Beach and now rented out to holidaymakers for £7,000 a week.

St Ives' 人気 as the quintessential Cornish seaside town has never 病弱なd since and the number of 訪問者s has kept going up. So much so that visiting St Ives in the summer can be a hellish experience.?

The small streets are rammed, finding a parking space is an art form in its own 権利 and 戦う／戦いing through （人が）群がるs of tourists doesn't make visiting the harbour town the most enjoyable experience.

Yet it is 平易な to see why it's is so popular with holidaymakers, 同様に as 訪問者s from across Cornwall. Fishermens' cottages recognisable for their moss-covered roofs （人が）群がる around a quaint little harbour where brightly painted boats 残り／休憩（する） on the sand at low tide.?

The light so prized by artists the world over is beautiful, and turquoise waters shimmer gloriously and invitingly, while sandy beaches, museums and galleries, famous arts schools and a 変化させるd and 井戸／弁護士席-設立する d foodie scene all 与える／捧げる to make it the tourists' magnet it is today.

And that's where the problem lies. St Ives relies on 観光旅行，事業 to such an extent that it's become an 中毒. The town has the second highest 訪問者-関係のある spend in the UK, with tourists spending £85million per year.?

Around 540,000 day trippers and more than 220,000 staying tourists visit St Ives every year, with the 観光旅行，事業 産業 accounting for around 2,800 職業s in the area - that's almost one in four people who live there.

In turn this has created its own 始める，決める of problems. Over the past two years it has all come to a 長，率いる and 地元のs, 定価つきの out of their own town so the little 住宅 在庫／株 there is left can make way for holiday lets and second homes, have had enough.

Stefan Harkon has seen the town he calls home change over the years and its 中毒 to 観光旅行，事業 grow - so much so that he 恐れるs that unless there is a strong political will for change at all levels, 一連の会議、交渉／完成する and 一連の会議、交渉／完成する we will continue to go and the young people of St Ives, and by 拡張 Cornwall, will keep having to leave in search for better 職業 prospects どこかよそで.

'We need 質 職業s and more affordable 住宅,' he 追加するd. 'We need to 投資する in our young people and their 未来 in whatever way we can.?

'They need to have a sense of 所有権 of their town for if they don't feel that the community where they live 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がるs them, we'll only see a 延長／続編 of this 宙返り飛行 we're in and the brain-drain will continue.

'You'd think it'd be a no-brainer for tech companies wanting to choose 場所s like St Ives. Perhaps the universities and colleges should look at having other campuses in places like St Ives, but at the moment all we have is a one-can narrative that is all about 観光旅行，事業.?

'The 見通し is pretty 荒涼とした for young people in our 郡 権利 now. 観光旅行，事業 has become the new fishing and tin 採掘 but you can't get a mortgage or a career on seasonal 職業s. So 一連の会議、交渉／完成する and 一連の会議、交渉／完成する we go.'

This is a leitmotiv we have heard repeated several times by 居住（者）s, often on low income, living at the 最高の，を越す of the hill, away from where the 豊富な holiday in their second homes for often いっそう少なく than six weeks of the year, yet servicing an 産業 that 料金d off that out-of-郡 wealth.

St Ives is known for sandy beaches, museums and galleries, arts schools and a 変化させるd and 井戸／弁護士席-設立するd foodie scene

Tourists gather at St Ives Harbour in Cornwall during hot 天候 over the 復活祭 bank holiday 週末 last month

地元のs in St Ives have been 定価つきの out, so the little 住宅 在庫／株 there is left can make way for holiday lets and second homes

As there is little new land 利用できる and nowhere to buy, it has also resulted in 賃貸しの prices going up - or worse - in families 存在 立ち退かせるd by landlords wanting to cash in on holidaymakers instead.

Camilla and fellow 選挙運動者 Jo Howard - th e self styled 'Mrs Box' known for her cardboard box 調印するs used to 最高潮の場面 the 悲惨な 問題／発行する of second homes in St Ives - agree, you can't 非難する anyone for wanting to move into a lovely 沿岸の place to live as it happened during the pandemic when St Ives received an influx of new 居住（者）s keen to sell up in London, Bristol or Birmingham.?

Nor can the 控訴，上告 to make money out of tourists be 非難するd either. How many of us would turn 負かす／撃墜する such an 適切な時期?

'It's the 法律 that needs to be changed,' said Jo. 'The （法などの）抜け穴 on second homes not 支払う／賃金ing 会議 税金 or 商売／仕事 率 must be の近くにd and a 観光旅行，事業 税金 brought in on second homes.?

'権利 now it feels like a 圧力 cooker that （機の）カム to the boil with Covid and the G7 首脳会議. People are telling us they're 存在 立ち退かせるd from their homes to make way for Airbnbs.'

The （選挙などの）運動をする group, which has held silent social-distancing-compliant 平和的な 抗議するs on The Island throughout the pandemic and in the run-up to the G7 首脳会議 in 隣人ing Carbis Bay last June, is calling for （犯罪の）一味 盗品故買者ing to give 優先 to 地元の people over out-of-郡 incomers, more social and affordable 住宅 to be built and, more importantly, more political かかわり合い at all levels to を取り引きする the second homes and 非，不，無-税金 支払う／賃金ing holiday lets 問題／発行する.

'It 作品 to have a 繁栄するing 観光旅行，事業 産業 that 支払う／賃金s its staff a decent enough 行う so they can afford to live here,' Camilla 追加するd.?

'It doesn't work to have a second homes 産業. If all second homes paid 会議 税金 like they're supposed to, there would be an extra £15million in Cornwall 会議 coffers at a time when they're の近くにing leisure centres that cost £10million to run. Cornwall has a 住宅 危機 on its 手渡すs and second homes are not good for the economy.'

The 問題／発行する of second homes in St Ives is so 激烈な／緊急の that in 2016 居住（者）s 投票（する）d to 禁止（する） new-build 住宅 from 存在 second-homes, with 83 per cent in favour. によれば Rightmove, 普通の／平均（する） house prices in the town are now at £440,000, more than 17 times the median 年次の 収入s of someone in Cornwall.?

Houses for sale in the town, 特に those on the harbourside, 定期的に appear for sale with price tags 範囲ing up to £700,000 or £1million.

Fishermens' cottages recognisable for their moss-covered roofs （人が）群がる around the quaint little harbour in St Ives

The 問題／発行する of second homes in St Ives is so 激烈な／緊急の that 居住（者）s 投票（する）d to 禁止（する） new-build 住宅 from 存在 second-homes

にもかかわらず its homes overlooking Porthmeor Beach, St Ives also has some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Cornwall

St Ives also 直面するs a 不足 of 賃貸しのs; in 2021, while there were more than 1,000 所有物／資産／財産s in the town 利用できる for short-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 holiday let, there was only one long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 house 利用できる to rent.?

How can most of those who live on some of the poorest 広い地所s like Penbeagle, afford to stay a week at Sunset House, the former 会議 house 破壊するd to make way for a £6m house overlooking Porthmeor Beach and now rented out to holidaymakers for £7,000 a week?

Andrew George, the former 自由主義の 民主党員 MP for St Ives, now a Cornwall 議員 for Ludgvan, Madron, Gulval and Heamoor and a 選挙運動者 against 住宅 不平等s, agreed.?

'広げるing 不平等 and 厳しい 住宅 不正 are illustrated by 観察するing the way communities like St Ives have 劇的な changed in 最近の １０年間s. In the 早期に '90s we used to canvas all homes in 'Downalong' just as much as we did the 残り／休憩（する） of the town.?

'There were second and holiday homes then, but they were a 少数，小数派. It's hardly 価値（がある） doing the same these days. The town has changed so much that many parts of St Ives are now a 寄宿舎 with very few 地元の families residing there at all.'

He 追加するd: 'There have been waves of 需要・要求する for second home 所有権 in 最近の １０年間s and the 最新の かもしれない pandemic-奮起させるd 圧力 on the 住宅 market is resulting in その上の 産業の-level changes in many of our communities.?

'This is resulting in high levels of evictions of 地元の families as 所有物／資産／財産s are 変えるd for second, holiday and Airbnb accommodation.

'The 衝撃 on our 地元の communities is enormous and 極端に upsetting for the families 害（を与える）d by this. While 所有物／資産／財産 相場師s 利益, 地元の families in desperate 住宅 needs 苦しむ through no fault of their own.?

'This is not about the politics of envy. It's 簡単に the politics of social 司法（官）. And 扱う／治療するing everyone decently and not favouring the 豊富な while those on lower income are left to struggle.'

Mr George was the first to blow the whistle 支援する in 2012 on the second home 税金 （法などの）抜け穴 - a （法などの）抜け穴 許すing some owners to 避ける 支払う／賃金ing neither 会議 税金 or 商売／仕事 ネズミ es which has yet to be fully の近くにd.

Since the beginning of the pandemic those する権利を与えるd to this 税金 利益 have also received greater handouts with more than £170million of Cornwall's Covid 援助（する） having been given to people who do not need it.

There are more than 1,000 所有物／資産／財産s in the town of St Ives 利用できる for short-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 holiday let

The west Cornwall seaside town has been a popular tourist 目的地 since the St Ives Bay Line opened in 1877

普通の／平均（する） house prices in St Ives are now at £440,000, more than 17 times the median 年次の 収入s of someone in Cornwall

'If those hundreds of millions of 続けざまに猛撃するs had been spent 演説（する）／住所ing the 住宅 needs of 地元の families,' Mr George 追加するd, 'we wouldn't be where we are today with thousands of 地元の families 直面するing eviction and the terror of 不確定 about where they will be living in the weeks ahead.'

St Ives Town 会議 認める there is not much it can do with its tiny 予算 and even bigger 強制s but 主張するd it will review its neighbourhood 計画（する） and the 衝撃 of 観光旅行，事業.?

It is also ロビーing Cornwall 会議 to let it develop land the larger 当局 is sitting on even though it has been （ーのために）とっておくd for social 住宅, and is （選挙などの）運動をするing f or a 限界 on Airbnbs in hotspots like St Ives as has happened in places such as Amsterdam or Barcelona.

Louise Dwelly, the town clerk, said: 'The level of 会議 税金 is going 負かす／撃墜する because there are more second homes which do not 支払う／賃金 税金 as they are 登録（する）d as 商売／仕事s.?

'That means the running of the town is more expensive for the people who live here as it is spread across より小数の people. We are also （選挙などの）運動をするing for the 法律 to be changed for a 観光旅行，事業 税金.'

現在の 保守的な MP Derek Thomas recently put 圧力 on his Whitehall 同僚s for changes to the 法律 to 演説（する）／住所 the 住宅 危機 in Cornwall by making long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 tenancies more attractive to landlords than holiday lets.?

Speaking in a 審議 about affordable homes in Devon and Cornwall, held in the Houses of 議会, he said: 'The 状況／情勢 is 緊急の 権利 now. I have so many 選挙権を持つ／選挙人s who are in a desperate 状況／情勢 and it needs 早い and 効果的な 介入 that 供給するs a 安全な・保証する home for life.

'We are losing these 価値のある homes, that people enjoy because of 法律制定 that 適用するs to 私的な landlords but doesn't やむを得ず 適用する to holiday lets. I don't believe it's a level playing-field.'

にもかかわらず its £1million homes overlooking the harbour or Porthmeor Beach, St Ives sadly 誇るs some of the poorest neighbourhoods in Cornwall. Some 36 per cent of children living on the Penbeagle 広い地所 live in poverty. That's 92 children out of the 255 living there.

によれば the Children's Society 攻撃を受けやすい children in Cornwall are more likely to receive 解放する／自由な school meals than five years ago. Data from the Department of Education shows that by the end of the 2020-21 school year, 57 per cent of Cornwall's children in need were 適格の for 解放する／自由な school meals - up from 40 per cent at the same point in 2016-17.

Their parents, while in work, are likely to be the ones having to rely on the 地元の foodbank to 生き残る. Throw in a price 増加する on everything from 燃料, to energy 法案s to food and it's no surprise many of the いっそう少なく 井戸／弁護士席-off 居住（者）s in the town are struggling to make ends 会合，会う.

St Ives Town 会議 is ロビーing Cornwall 会議 to let it develop land the larger 当局 is sitting on

The 会議 is （選挙などの）運動をするing for a 限界 on Airbnbs in St Ives as has happened in places such as Amsterdam or Barcelona

Houses for sale in St Ives, 特に those on the harbourside, 定期的に appear for sale with price tags up to £1million

'It's going to get worse,' said Chris Wallis, who runs St Ives Foodbank out of the Chy an Gweal Methodist chapel in Carbis Bay, a 石／投石する's throw from where the leaders of the seven richest nations on earth met for their G7 首脳会議 get-together a year ago.

The retired Pentecostal 牧師 始める，決める up the food bank 11 years ago to cover the TR26 postcode area but the number of people in need of its services 増加するd 劇的な during the pandemic when 料金d ing one's family became an even bigger struggle for many.

At the St Ives Rugby Club, the volunteers running the St Ives Community Food 株 事業／計画（する） feel the same way. While their 率先 始める，決める up during the pandemic to help 料金d the 貧困の with food that supermarkets would さもなければ throw away, 茎・取り除くs from a waste-minimisation 関心, Jo and Gabby, who help run the 計画／陰謀, know it is plugging a gap.

There is no referral system at the Food 株 事業／計画（する） and it is not means 実験（する）d. While some people who can afford to buy food at the 地元の supermarket may come along, spurred on by an 環境の 関心 not to see food go to waste, a 大多数 are from some of the poorer parts of town.

Jo said: 'We didn't 始める，決める this up to fight poverty but fight food waste. For if you look at how much time and energy it costs to produce food, it's shocking to have food 結局最後にはーなる in landfill. That should never happen. Now food waste is helping solve two problems which is 広大な／多数の／重要な.?

'It's filling a gap. I'm really poor so I can't afford to buy healthy food as my food 予算 is 限られた／立憲的な, so what it means to me and to so many other people is that my diet is better. My kids' diet is better too.'

When the group started out, its services were open twice a week now it runs seven days a week and 手渡すs out two tonnes of food every three months to 地元の people.?

Gabby 追加するd: 'A lot of people are going through a 堅い time 権利 now. They're working but they're struggling and they can't 供給する for their family so they come here where there is no stigma and they don't have that sense of shame that's often 大（公）使館員d to going to a food bank.'

支援する at the food bank on St Ives Road, Chris 追加するd: 'I see so many people in desperate needs. 普通は we'd be helping out 14 families a week but during the pandemic that went up to 35.?< /p>

'Now we give out about 1,000 meals a week and it's the cost of living that's 押し進めるing the numbers up. It keeps going up. It's very much 'heat or eat' for people.'

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Rundown 木造の chalet on Cornish beach with 'sea glimpses' goes on sale for £350,000?

A rundown 木造の chalet on a Cornish beach is up for sale for £350,000.

The two bedroomed detached chalet - with no inside loo - is の近くに to Swithian sand dunes and the sea.

But the スパイ／執行官s say: 'This is a unique 適切な時期 to redevelop and modernise (支配する to the necessary 同意s) a two bedroom detached chalet 据えるd within the 高度に 望ましい area of Gwithian, Hayle.'

The Auction House スパイ／執行官s say ‘there are sea glimpses’ from the chalet but the sand dunes are a short stroll away.

The chalet also has a kitchen, 歓迎会 room and an 外部の にわか雨 room.

The guide price is £325,00 to £350,000 加える 料金s and it will be auctioned on May 26.

This 木造の beach chalet in Cornwall is going on sale for between £325,000 and £350,000 on May 24. The chalet is a short stroll from Gwthian Sands beach in Hayle

The chalet, which is 位置を示すd behind sand dunes is 述べるd as having 'sea glimpses. The new owner will have to 支払う／賃金 料金s on 最高の，を越す of the auction prices