Uproar as Dutch conglomerate buys up 25 Cornish properties, turfs out tenants, closes Post Office

Villagers in North Cornwall were left reeling yesterday, as over 20 families were handed notices of eviction by a foreign property development company. A busy post office in the isolated rural village was also purchased, which the Netherlands-based company intends to convert into holiday flats.


The distraught families were all renting the properties, and due to out of control house price inflation couldn't afford to buy a home of their own. The soon to be evicted tenants have so far been refused help by the council, due to a massive shortfall in social or affordable housing.

Alarmingly, some members of the families now face being put into care by social services, while their parents have been directed to overnight hostel accommodation.

It is thought that most of the affected families, who are all local, will also lose their jobs.

The Dutch company behind the fiasco have so far refused to speak to Rentfreecornwall, but our sources indicate the company are also in line to receive around £4million of EU subsidy to convert the former residential properties into expensive holiday homes, a wine bar, and a leisure club.

As the poorest part of the United Kingdom, Cornwall is entitled to EU Objective One funding, although critics of the scheme insist the funds are often mis-managed.

Later in the day a villager approached Rentfreecornwall, and declared: 'The greed in this country is out of control. I can assure you that the whole village will rally behind these evicted local working families, and re-house them ourselves, in empty Cornish holiday homes.'