Changing Places Pack 8

Terling Changes(4)

• Terling is majority middle aged people with young families, 97% white and higher average income than rest of the UK with 46% of people being employed full time

• Population increase has happened due to new houses being added to village and proximity to London

• Village shops suffer as people choose to shop in nicer places like London as shops are larger and close by

• Increased car ownership has reduced demand for bus services

 

Second homes in Wales (5)

• 4x as many houses were sold as second homes in Wales compared with the UK average over the last 12 months  (7.3%)

• One in every 10 homes in Gwynedd is now a second home

• In Gwynedd 1,349 long term empty second properties

• Fewer homes for locals to buy or rent, pushing them out of their own communities, particularly young people

• Welsh government has decided to increase tax, introduce planning permission and licences for turning residential homes into air BnBs

Service provision (5)

• Remote rural/peripheral areas have a higher ratio of older people and need more health and social care workers as the population is ageing 3x faster than UK average. This is challenging when house prices have seen a 400% increase since 2000.

• Banks and shops have been closing in rural towns. 250 rural bank branches closed in 2023. Poor broadband connectivity also means online banking is challenging.

• However, migrants to rural areas create a multiplier effect as they invest in leisure and tourism opportunities and have disposable incomes to spend in local pubs and shops

• Young people migrate out and well qualified people as they seek university and employment in urban areas leading to lack of threshold population for local businesses

• 300 to 500 village shops close every year because of this e.g. Benenden village shop was going to close down but bought by local senior school and run by volunteers

Lakes by Yoo method (3)

• Trying to market the rural idyll to wealthy buyers

• 178 homes built costing £3150 per week to stay in

• Use celebrity endorsement as a form of boosterism, for example Kate Moss designed a home

Lakes by Yoo impact (2)

• Demand has increased for homes here due to association of the Cotswolds with the rich and famous

• People on modest incomes holiday in local villages

Community Land Trusts Cornwall - why needed (4)

• Community Land Trusts are when local people collectively own and manage land to provide affordable housing.

• Prevents houses becoming second homes or being sold to wealthy people that are moving from cities

• Enables poorer local people to stay in the parish that they live in and keeps them with their families

• e.g. St Minver, Cornwall the local band, football and cricket teams lacked threshold population to join as young people couldn’t afford to live there. Community Land Trust set up

Community Land Trusts Cornwall Impact (5)

• Cornwall county council gave a £320,000 investment

• 12 bungalows were built for local people by volunteers

• Homes could only be sold to local people

• Tackling problem of second homes pushing locals out

• However, limited number of homes doesn’t solve wider housing crisis

Chesterfield FDI

£100 million pounds from investors in the USA to transform a former open cast mining site near Chesterfield, Derbyshire into a health, sport and education facility which created over 200 jobs

Chesterfield FDI impacts

• With stable employment, local people can afford mortgages and can compete with second homeowners and those moving from cities. They can afford house prices, preventing young people from moving away.

• However, increased traffic and pollution