Tourist traps

IF WHITBY doesn’t want second home owners (Mail), does it want the holidaymakers who stay in them?

If it doesn’t want tourists, then why does it try so hard to attract them with shops, fish and chips and entertainment?

I often go to Whitby and stay in a cottage that is someone’s second home. I happily spend money locally, like all the other visitors. What would the town do without all this income?

Perhaps the locals should be grateful that they live in a lovely place that other people wish to visit.

KAY PERKINS, Great Coates, Lincs. IF Second home ownership in tourist towns is to be limited, will homeowners be restricted if they wish to sell?

Will new- build purchasers, presumably at reduced prices, have covenants limiting a future sale?

Houses can only become holiday homes if the original owners sell them. I can’t see anyone wanting to be limited in the price they can ask.

ALAN STEAD, Loftus, N. Yorks. WELL done, Wales, for charging increased council tax on second homes. I hope councils in England follow suit before our beautiful villages are lost for ever.

HELEN PENNEY, Longborough, Glos.