Readers React to Cotswolds Village's Tourist Backlash

Residents of Bourton-on-the-Water, a scenic Cotswolds village, are seeking to ban coaches and charge tourists to protect their village from becoming 'Blackpool-on-the-Water'. However, Independent readers are divided on their stance.

2 Aug, 06:30 — 2 Aug, 06:30

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Voices: ‘They can’t have it both ways’: Readers turn on residents of scenic Cotswolds village over tourist backlash

Bourton-on-the-Water residents want coaches banned and tourists charged to save their village from ‘Blackpool-on-the-Water’ status – but Independent readers were far from united behind them

By Independent and Lauren MacDougall

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Readers React to Cotswolds Village's Tourist Backlash

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Voices: ‘They can’t have it both ways’: Readers turn on residents of scenic Cotswolds village over tourist backlash

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