Salcombe Second Home Issues are Small Fry Compared to Some!

I came across this article on the "thisisdevon" web site. It makes the squabbling about second home owners in Salcombe seem trivial. Lets just hope we never get to the levels that the residents of Worth Matravers have sunk to, although you can understand their ire. To be honest I don't really think there is much of a problem in Salcombe. It's swings and roundabouts, the second home owners obviously bring a great deal of money into the town from which the locals benefit in many respects, but the down side is ridiculously high house prices and a plethora of expensive shops.

Hopefully some of the affordable housing will help the original community to survive and the school to stay open. Salcombe without it's long term residents would be a soulless place. For me it's the mix of people that makes Salcombe great; you only have to sit outside the KA on an August evening and watch the people go by to see the multitude of different people who all have on thing in common...they love Salcombe!