So when can we go to second homes do you reckon

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I've seen holiday cottages available to book from 4th July, but when can we as one household move from our first home to our second home for a change of scenery?

I've resisted so far as one of our neighbours down there is older and very cautious about the virus but I'm desperate to get down there, do some gardening, enjoy the place again.

I’m in the Lakes. We have the highest rates of COVID here (of anywhere in the U.K.) I believe, there’s a lot of anti-second home feeling here as there a believe that this is why we are so badly hit due to influx of tourists ignoring rules.Disclaimer... I don’t know if this is true or not but I do know many folk around me feel like this.

Somebody from the Lakes, an official of some sort, confirmed your high rate of infection was caused by travelling locals. Travelling across the UK and abroad and then returning home. Commuting, local day trips, returning from holidays, and there were also loads of returning locals. Students and others who'd moved away but came back to their families before or during lockdown. Apparently the second home owners are a tiny minority.

@Cherrypie32 totally understand - same situation here and I just don’t think we can travel until government officially changes advice so the locals have nothing to rant about!

@ToffeeYoghurt that may be the case but that’s not what the locals believe and there’s a lot of anti feeling about it.

bananas you’re right. I’m too much of a rule abider to actually do it. I’d still be apprehensive going back anytime soon based on what I’ve read but at least if we experienced any hostility after it’s made official we’re on the right side of the law.

@ToffeeYoghurt
Stephen Kinnock was called out early in lockdown (and told off by police) because he tweeted a picture of his visit.

www.itv.com/news/wales/2020-03-30/police-urge-mp-stephen-kinnock-to-comply-with-coronavirus-lockdown-rules-after-visiting-dad-on-birthday/

I believe key workers are allowed to travel into Wales and stay here, yes. That would be essential travel.

I think the vast majority of MPs returned home from London at Easter when parliament closed and then many of them returned, although not all of them could be in parliament. Not sure of Stephen Kinnock's dates but maybe the majority of his journey was related to that and then he called round with supplies for his parents, isn't his dad nearly 80? Some people have to move around due to work, we'd all be hungry without HGV drivers for example.

I’m in the Lakes. We have the highest rates of COVID here (of anywhere in the U.K.) I believe, there’s a lot of anti-second home feeling here as there a believe that this is why we are so badly hit due to influx of tourists ignoring rules.Disclaimer... I don’t know if this is true or not but I do know many folk around me feel like this. The South West is also a tourist area and yet it has the lowest rates I think.

@1forsorrow. Yes, that wasn’t really my point. The point was many local people are blaming it on ‘incomers’. I don’t agree with this but there is a feeling of anti-second homers here.

@Kittenlicker I knew exactly what your point was, I was giving you some ammunition to back you up.

I see The Mirror is making a fuss about Rachel Johnson staying overnight at her London home when she is officially in Somerset. Again, when she is at liberty to travel to London every day and hang out outside, I fail to see what possible difference it makes to anyone if she also stays overnight in her own house. I think that second home visits haven’t been officially permitted only so to keep the pitchfork wavers less agitated, also because the optics (More privileges for ‘Boris’s posh mates with second homes’) aren’t good.

@sleepwhenidie I think this is my issue. The vigilante public taking it upon themselves to enforce "rules"which are nonsensical. And yet in the press today we see thousands of people who have followed "rules" to the crowded beach at Durdle Door...