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Figures have shown the number of 'entire places' for rent in seaside towns in England and Wales has swelled by 56 per cent between 2019 and 2022, compared to 15 per cent in non-coastal communities.
Those who do not live full-time in the county are set to have a 100 per cent premium on second homes which will be brought in within the next two years.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has launched a 'call for evidence', admitting that a surge in homes available on the likes of Airbnb and Booking.com has created 'areas of concern.'
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.