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SOCIAL IMPACT OF HOLIDAY HOMES AND SECOND HOMES

  
Here are some comments picked up from various forums which summarise the main arguments from each side.  

Common arguments against holiday homes

It's not fair for somebody to own more than one home when other people have no home.  
A home is a necessity, a second home is just greedy. Until everybody in the country has at least one home nobody should be allowed to have a second home.
Unless second home ownership is stopped rural communities will be unable to survive and there will be an increasing level of welfare dependency in rural areas.
Every time somebody purchases a second house they deprive someone else of a first one.  

A well argued contribution from George Monbiot can also be found at the end of this link.

 

  
   
Arguments in defence of second homes  
Second home owners coming in from the outside often inject useful cash (spending cash, employing local workmen etc) into otherwise declining rural areas.  
If somebody wants to spend their money on a second home, and they can afford it, in a free country it's nobody else's business  
Rural areas, because agriculture has become much more mechanised, no longer need the same numbers of local people to work on the land as they might have done years ago. It is logical therefore that people will move to where there is work and rural houses will be converted to more leisure use.  
Calls to ban holiday homes are effectively just a re-work of the classic socialist lie that the poor are poor because the rich are rich.  
   
This site (weekendplace.co.uk) has been set up to provide a space on-line for people who are interested in second home ownership (whether they are for or against it in principle) to find information, opinions and debate.  
   
         
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