Whitby votes to limit sales of second homes

Whitby Community Network, the organiser of the poll, said it hoped to send a clear message that ‘change is needed’. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Whitby has become the latest tourist hotspot to vote for a limit on the sale of second homes as residents sounded a “very loud message that enough is enough”.

Families in the Yorkshire fishing port said they had been priced out of the housing market as wealthy incomers paid exorbitant prices for holiday boltholes.