Millionaires are pricing us out, cry locals forced to live in SHEDS in UK holiday home capital

RESIDENTS in 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 mines 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. Surveys of the village and surrounding seaside town found almost three quarters of houses were second homes in 2021 but locals believe the rate is now far higher. The noticeboard inside the village post office - which was itself saved by community fundraising after its previous home was sold - tells its own story with adverts seeking classic car storage, property management companies and changeover day cleaners. Read more: