Cornwall's van dwellers face eviction as council targets caravan sites

Dozens of vulnerable people, including elderly residents and those with serious mental and physical health problems, face eviction and potential homelessness due to council enforcement actions.

In Cornwall, where four million tourists arrive each year and tens of thousands of holiday lets have hollowed out the rental market, some of the county's most vulnerable residents have found shelter in caravans and horseboxes on farmland — only to find the council's enforcement machinery turning toward them. These are not people who chose precarity as a lifestyle; they are people for whom every other door had already closed. The question Cornwall now poses to the rest of England is an old and uncomfortable one: when the law is applied with consistency but without wisdom, who bears the cost of

Cornwall's van dwellers face eviction as council targets caravan sites

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