Our communities are being destroyed

Rural areas throughout Western Europe have seen house price rises of 100% in the last three years ALONE.

Average house prices in the poorest parts of the country are already over £213,350...

You would need a salary of £60,000 to be able to afford a mortgage on a house that expensive.

How many people do you know who earn over £60,000?

Come to that, how many people do you know who earn over £20,000?

Who can afford these new houses?

Our teachers can't.

Our nurses can't.

Our fireman can't.

Even our policemen can't.

ORDINARY rural people cannot afford these prices.

That is why more and more people from wealthier areas are moving into our communities, and treating them like playgrounds - staying for a few weeks, refusing to become part of the community, refusing to show respect.

That's why our young people are being forced to leave in order to hunt for work, and the chance to buy a home, in the big cities.

Fewer young people means fewer young families means fewer small local schools, fewer local activities and less of a local community.

That's how you kill off a community.

That's how you kill off a culture.

That's how you kill off HOPE.

This MUST be stopped

Cymuned is a housing and communities pressure group which also supports the Welsh language.

We are calling on your Council to change their planning policies so that every new house is for local people only - no new build except for LOCAL NEED. Building new houses can only be justified where there is a real local need for them.

It's time to ditch complicated, confusing rules which let greedy companies sell new houses to wealthy incomers but which stop local families from building homes for their children on their own land.

It's time to call a halt to ridiculous prices that no-one local can afford.

It's time to stop other people profiting from our misfortunes.