New rules that will give communities greater control over short-term lets in tourist hot spots where local families say they have been priced out have been proposed by the government.
A consultation published on Thursday by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities will propose introducing planning permissions requirements for short-term lets in tourist hot spots.
Families have claimed that an explosion in holiday lets is strangling rural communities.
The government said it has “listened to calls from local people in tourist hotspots that they are priced out of homes to rent or to buy and need housing that is more affordable so they can continue to work and live in the place they call home.”…