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Councillors have voted to ask officials to draw up proposals which will ban new-build second homes and holiday lets in some areas of East Sussex.
Nurse Chantel Marriott and her firefighter fiance Joss Gibson say they will have to move out of Swanage, in Dorset, as they can't afford soaring rents caused by second homes.
Residents in Whitby turned out in their droves last night and won a landslide 93% vote to stop new builds being sold to rich 'outsiders' amid fears families are being priced out of the market.
Councillors’ salary and expenses costs climbed five per cent to reach more than £450,000 last year.
THE TOTAL expenses claimed by councillors in the last financial year was more than double that of the previous year, new figures show. Shetland’s elected members claimed £5,683.60 in expenses in 2021/22, compared to £2,584.21 in 2020/21. This may reflect in part the...