CAMPAIGNERS will march from the Llyn Peninsula to Caernarfon tomorrow to highlight Gwynedd’s second homes crisis.

A year has gone by since residents of Pen Llyn and members of Nefyn Town Council walked to Caernarfon to raise awareness of the lack of proper regulating of second homes and the lack of safeguards for our communities and language.

Campaigners say little has been achieved politically since then so tomorrow they will once again walk to Gwynedd Council’s headquarters in Caernarfon.

"Our communities continue to be vulnerable with young families being uprooted from Llyn and unable to afford to live locally," a campaign spokesperson said.

"Communities where Welsh is a living language are under siege and are by now regions of special language sensitivity.

"It’s shameful that our Government both national and local are reluctant to act swiftly and decisively to resolve the crisis.

"As a consequence, we have organised a march from Llyn starting symbolically in the car park above the language centre in Nant Gwrtheyrn at 8am on Saturday, 25 September.

"We welcome all to join our march."

They aim to reach the council building in Caernarfon at 3pm where they will demand that "the county council’s leadership and The Gwynedd and Môn’s Joint Local Development Planning Committee ensure a swift revision to the Local Development Plan to protect locals, communities and our language" and ask the government to "implement a break on second home purchases by creating a specific Land Transaction Tax class for second homes and then raise the tax from the higher rates tax lowest level of four per cent to 20 per cent, pilot regulations which, through the Land Tax system, prohibits non-locals from buying second homes in protected areas and ensure widespread use of ‘Homebuy-Wales’ which provides equity to locals".