FED-UP residents of the UK’s second home capital say they are being forced to live in caravans and sheds as overpriced houses are instantly snapped up by wealthy Londoners.
Families in the Cornish village of St Minver – a couple of miles inland from the Camel Estuary and Polzeath, where celebs including Gordon Ramsay, Rick Stein and David Cameron own holiday homes – say their community has turned into a ghost town, driven partly by the surge in wealthy visitors staycationing during Covid.