Dunwich was England’s second port until the sea claimed it in the Middle Ages. The coast has been eroding since England was connected to the continent.
It's happening faster all over the world. We've got rising sea levels and it's never happened this quickly. We have history dating back 50k years and our politicians and idiots don't have a care in the world. It's only a worry when it hits the rich people and the geese wake up because they can't think for themselves. Don't forget the water rises over the whole ocean and that's a huge amount of water probably in the trillions or quadrillions of liters of water. That's scary not our political leaders.
The coast is NOT disappearing, it is just moving, and it is going to happen anyway, so why build there, and think about what the earth there is made up of.
The same could of been said for the Netherlands coast years ago but they invested in their infrastructure and created an economic benefit from doing so and gained a huge amount of land area regardless of the environmental concerns. Today the environment there has adapted to those changes and flourished both on land and in the sea. Were not thinking big enough.
Come on Government, 8 million a day being spent on migrants in hotels. Stop the very land crumbling away from the weight of it all & put that money to good urgent use, mend the crumbling shorelines!!
Lowestoft North beach, is shocking. Basically all the beach in front of the sea wall has gone. It was a lovely beach in the 70s, 80s that I remember. Such a shame, its gone.
The trouble is one part is protected, another part of the coastline suffers with the increased pounding from the waves. As long as London is OK, the rest does not matter.
@@AnitaDilLondon is under sea level and has a river which is tidal to the sea running through the middle of it so its not really away from the coast as such
London may be a long way from the sea but it's had millions spent on flood defences over the years. For example, the Thames Barrier, when it was built, it was only ment to be closed occasionally to keep high tides out of London, but now it have to be closed several times a year. A new bigger and better Thames Barrier will have to be built sooner rather than later to replace the existing barrier.
Sadly this was forecast many years ago. The fact that it's actually happening doesn't really make it any better. Some of the prolonged periods of rain have been quite staggering when you see how much flooding has occurred.
I get your point, and I’m not saying it is the best use of money. But the point of high speed rail isn’t to reduce journey times for the people who take the highspeed line, it reduces congestion on the regular lines. Investing in high spees rail isn’t a problem, but tge horrendous mismanagement, we considerably over payed per mile of track as compared to equivalent high speed rail project in Europe
It wouldn;t be so expensive to create an articifical reef a mile or so off coast, electrify it and let it calcify- become seacrete. it will cost once but last for centuries. It would have the added benefit of providing shelter for young fish, allowing for faster and more sustainable restocking of the fishing grounds. There is also the carbon sequestration (in the form of carbonates). The vision of the government in this area is too short sighted.
This may repeat other comments, but I don't doubt the inhabitants of Dunwich, Old Winchelsea, and other lost towns would have expressed similar views to some of those in the film, and their homes disappeared anyway. Maintaining low lying and vulnerable coastlines will become increasingly difficult and expensive, and painful and unpopular decisions will have to be made. It is part of a natural cycle, although it is accelerating because of climate change. I grew up near Beachy Head, and I have seen an increase in the rate of erosion during my lifetime. At Birling Gap, for example, part of the pub car park I used as a young man has disappeared over the cliff edge, along with some of the old coastguard houses, and if I live long enough, I may see the pub and rest of the houses gone.
I agree. At the end of the day nature will always beat man's efforts. I agree it would be a waste of time and money saving these small towns. Move out and accept the eventuality of what nature will do.
The woman thinks too much of bricks and mortar. I would take the money, build myself a little cottage in Portugal and spend Christmases in Austria or Switzerland
If you go to the other coast, where i was born, Southport, the coast is being reclaimed. Huge areas of former beach are now farmland. It’s just geography. Nothing is going to stop the forces of nature.
I bet if the prime ministers private residence were by the coast theyd find the funding to protect it!! I have always dreamt of living right by the coast, living an idyllic life......until videos like this appears and gives a reminder that the idyllic life unfortunately doesn't last forever. It was said on the video that the section of sand was due to heavy rain on land that had unstable sand and it wasnt the sea that did it. But what unstabled the sand in the first place? Surely that was the sea? So ultimately the sea was to blame!!
When I was at school in the fifties we were taught that Eastern England was subsiding beneath the sea. In the last ice age there was two miles of ice over Britain and when it melted the Pennines raised and the East Coast sunk and continues to do so at 1/8 inch per year. That equates to 1 foot per century. In my lifetime that is 9 3/8 inches. The only way the East Coast could be saved would be by building a sea wall from beyond Hull to the Thames including a Wash Barrage. How high would this be? Well that is interesting. The projection is that rising sea water levels could amount to 3 ft. The land drops 1 ft per hundred years. The tide rise is 2 ft at Gt Yarmouth bar. These numbers merely keep the numbers,stable there would be no improvement. The sea wall has to prevent the events of 1953 which I remember. So we would have to build a wall possibly 20 to 25 feet high with the footing commensurate. The amount of concrete would take the output of several wind farms for a couple of generations. The sad thing is the pumping of sand from off shore sea bed to build up the beach merely causes the bed to slip back to the hole. That is why to process has been abandoned in some places. Many of the properties up and down this area were old summer holiday residences bought cheap by people who guessed their lives would be shorter than the loss of land. For some that gamble failed. Some claim to have spoken to water engineers but these are people concerned with pipes and drainage. They should have spoken to flood engineers and geologists who look across national boundaries. Will the national community through the government make funds available. Not a chance because you are looking at a tax rate on top of current income tax that neither the government nor the electorate would accept. This subject,has surfaced through my lifetime every 8 to 10 years. The complaints are by incomers who wanted to live under East Anglian skies during retirement and despite enquiry took a gamble to some extent. There will be some managed retreat; it is already happening and farmland under crop in Essex and Suffolk has been allowed to have the sea flood back into it by reducing the banks to sea level. Architects are providing potential schemes to allow certain areas potential viability for a period where there is sea incursions. Don’t shout about what the Dutch have done because their geology is different. We have been through all the arguments in the last 80 years. The truth is some people will not be told and resent the result of Nature and we know it has been going on from before history was written. If you don’t want erosion stay away from the coast and if you don’t wish to be flooded pick high ground. Some will call that callous but that is what we were taught at school, in Norfolk, in the fifties. It was a State school and they gave us a good education.
Thank you for this comment. Sensible and logical. I can see your education was excellent, from the way you write and think. Here in Australia, our coastline is way too big and population way too small to try to save eroding beaches. The council at Byron Bay (Australia's mainland eastern-most point) has told beachfront residents it won't be doing anything to save their multi-million dollar houses. This suits the rest of us as some bad effects of climate change are being felt further inland - eg the city of Lismore lost a high school (permanently closed) and hundreds of houses to floods a few years ago. A big shopping mall/centre in Brisbane went under at the same time and has never re-opened.
@@chrishartley4553 Gloucester was a port until recently because of the Gloucester and Sharpness canal. Berkeley is 5 miles away from any navigable water. Manchester is also a port due to a canal.
The guy from the council should have mentioned the implications for areas further down the coast if Happisburgh was protected by sea defences. It would only exacerbate problems due to lack of sediment. A really challenging and unfortunate situation…
What the HELL is a "Coastal Manager." I'm just about to apply for a job as a "Lesser-spotted Flycatcher Watcher" on an annual salary of £60,000. .... Do vacancies for coastal managers come up very often ? If I don't get the job of "Lesser-spotted Flycatch Watcher", I would be happy to take a job as "Coastal Manager"
What Malcolm Kerby said at 23.43 is utterly correct. By spending absolutely VAST amounts of (taxpayer's) money to defend one small area, all you would achieve is to make that area a peninsular, then an island, and then, in a very short time, the island would be washed away. One CANNOT STOP coastal erosion
By the time our government has wasted money on committees, approval from the environmental surveying to ensure no animals will be affected, half the money is gone and then they will give up saying saying the funds required were not met. Our government is mired in policy and administration
Excellent broadcast standard video. I feel sorry for the people of Happisburgh and all the other coastal towns and villages that are losing their land to the sea. Blackpool and most of the Fylde Coast would be in a similar situation if £millions haven't been spent on hold the line defences over the years. Blackpool was given £73 million for sea defences in 2013 but have now been given another £118 million for new sea defences. Cleveleys a lovely coastal town north of Blackpool also have been given £millions to upgrade their sea defences over the years. They are currently working on sea defence work on one of their beaches. In fact all along the Fylde Coast £millions have been spent on sea defence and £millions more will be spent on future sea defence work.
Get yourself a Pint in the pub while you can its a nice old county pub its still great local pub thats not been messed about, take your kids t walk the cliffs so someone will remember it
When I buy a house I find out the erosion rate of the nearby coasts and river banks. If the property is less than one hundred years worth of erosion away from the coast, I don't buy it. Who would?
Norfolk would be losing "Metres" of land. Unless you mean that there have been "meters" installed to measure those distances - but are themselves disappearing.
1999 government coastal withdrawal bill just meant abandon our coast and people's homes and business to the sea. So where will this line be finally drawn? Especially as government doesn't like spending public money on things that matter, in my opinion? I remember a time, around 1995, when people talked about environmental refugees coming to the UK. Seems we can help them, but not our own people? And I can still remember when the sea breakers were removed, under the guise that these sea defences prevented beach sand moving around our coastline, a natural thing, it was claimed. Yet no one anything about the sand being removed from our coastline to build roads and tall buildings? Which makes me wonder if by removing so much sand, have we managed to speed up costal erosion? So who made money from doing this? Certainly not the people loosing there coastlines and homes?
Thing is you can’t prevent nature. When we are a ball of water circulating tides daily rotating you’d think if you lived 1000m from the sea you should have some level of worry. Coastal erosion has existed hundreds of years. We had the dogger hills disappear in the last couple hundred years and will continue to lose land regardless of what we build. You as a person aren’t special. If you looked at Britain 1300 years ago and now you’d appreciate the fact we even still exist in the first place. Coastal lowland is a poor choice for settling full stop. You can’t expect to prevent Mother Nature because you want to sit in your checkered blanket sipping a cup of tea happily. That’s not how it works. Nature will run its course the Holocene epoch will end and we’ll all cook in a sauna before freezing again there isn’t anything we have to offer that can prevent or intervene. Best you can do is educate yourself and embrace it. Exciting times that bit by bit the planet is eroding itself while there’s hundreds of square miles of non affected land still. who ever do you think you are to question something we’ve all latched on to like parasites calling it our own. It’s comical.
@@marybedward9381 Ah yes! That was why he showed he could fail. It was the last time people tried flattery upon him. Perhaps we could do with some ministers and prime ministers with the same perception!
TRT world could also cover the terrible political situation at home, where a fash*ist dictator is in place, discriminating the Kurds and other minorities, biult himself a gigantic palace and built an insanely gigantic airport in biodiverse wetlands.
We are a small island compared to some other countries so it should be paramount that we save our land from the sea and reclaim what is lost, but as always money is more important!
Yeah but most american Houses are lightweight, timber clad structures. Most UK houses are of Brick and mortar construction. Not saying it's impossible, but it would be So much harder in Britain than in the states.
🤔🤔🤔🤔watching this with interest....i wonder how many old merchant vessels get scrapped , probably overseas, every year. Why not cut off their upper super structures or leave it....fill them with concrete, rubble....land fill and use them as a 'block ship ' as was done to defend harbours in ww1 and ww2......it would take the sea years to destroy these structures.....😊
Nowt new east coast eroding in places west coast,go to Southport soon they will have to extend the pier to reach the sea trees where growing on the beach now felled.Seems whole country is tipping after all use to be joined to the continent?
The fact that this programme was run and managed and produced by more foreigners that you can find in a truck in Dover a programme about the English coast being eroded is quite comedy value tbh..... 😂😂😂
I have sympathy. But we can’t just fight the unfightable. Personally I wouldn’t want to live in a Shell town. And one day that wall will fail too, it doesn’t look that special already. And it’s interesting it’s not just sea erosion but comes from rain etc and landslides.
So this Council member guy keeps he was in the excuses about "money" and then he used the excuse about the "environment" the HS2 project is causing and will cause massive irreparable damage to local ecosystems not to mention the amount of pollution involved in the construction (Concrete and steel one of the most polluting products we use). As for the taxpayers money spent on this project which is massively over budget and parts of it are now being cancelled, I'm sure it could have been used somewhere else instead the coastal erosion of an island the island that we live on would be a good idea 👌
As someone mentioned earlier the coast is not disappearing but just moving. Government can spend £8 million each day on hotels for non tax payers but for taxpaying joe public who find them selves in an unfortunate position, you are just not worth it
That one looked particularly dodgy! Shifting eyes, nodding, impatient while question being asked. Needs media training at least because you cannot instil empathy and genuine care for issues and constituents if it's not there.
Maybe you can stop scapegoating foreigners and get real -corrupt govt and corporate tax dodging parasites are to blame for the lack of money needed for infrastructure
Hmm if I only had the money that the government spend on their expenses i could probably build a couple of mile of defences.🤔 We the people, the government's employers (ish) we would like you to fix Britain's coastline if you don't we'll get somebody else who will👍
Anywhere not rock is suffering, lots of places are one spring tide plus a bad onshore storm away from disaster .Fancy not mentioning shells role in undermining climate catastrophe response thereby causing extra erosion through inaction .
Dunwich was England’s second port until the sea claimed it in the Middle Ages. The coast has been eroding since England was connected to the continent.
It's happening faster all over the world. We've got rising sea levels and it's never happened this quickly. We have history dating back 50k years and our politicians and idiots don't have a care in the world.
It's only a worry when it hits the rich people and the geese wake up because they can't think for themselves.
Don't forget the water rises over the whole ocean and that's a huge amount of water probably in the trillions or quadrillions of liters of water.
That's scary not our political leaders.
The coast is NOT disappearing, it is just moving, and it is going to happen anyway, so why build there, and think about what the earth there is made up of.
The same could of been said for the Netherlands coast years ago but they invested in their infrastructure and created an economic benefit from doing so and gained a huge amount of land area regardless of the environmental concerns. Today the environment there has adapted to those changes and flourished both on land and in the sea. Were not thinking big enough.
@@ricardosmythe2548 Now THIS is a good thoughtful reply...Thanks.
How about a video about the UK is getting NEW coastline?
Come on Government, 8 million a day being spent on migrants in hotels. Stop the very land crumbling away from the weight of it all & put that money to good urgent use, mend the crumbling shorelines!!
Lowestoft North beach, is shocking.
Basically all the beach in front of the sea wall has gone.
It was a lovely beach in the 70s, 80s that I remember.
Such a shame, its gone.
The trouble is one part is protected, another part of the coastline suffers with the increased pounding from the waves. As long as London is OK, the rest does not matter.
Mr london is in prison doing time its called hard slaving for the Packington cos he's ur man
London is a bit far from a coastline is it not. Your comment is ridiculous.
@@AnitaDilLondon is under sea level and has a river which is tidal to the sea running through the middle of it so its not really away from the coast as such
London may be a long way from the sea but it's had millions spent on flood defences over the years. For example, the Thames Barrier, when it was built, it was only ment to be closed occasionally to keep high tides out of London, but now it have to be closed several times a year. A new bigger and better Thames Barrier will have to be built sooner rather than later to replace the existing barrier.
@@bredaquirke7362 that's because it's the capital and was capital of the world
It’s been eroding and building up in other places for years, nature never stands still.
This erosion would not happen in the Netherlands and it is predicted that many more properties will suffer in other locations. A Shameful outlook.
This is no surprise to the people of Doggerland.
Sadly this was forecast many years ago.
The fact that it's actually happening doesn't really make it any better.
Some of the prolonged periods of rain have been quite staggering when you see how much flooding has occurred.
£100 billion to take ten minutes off the journey to Birmingham that is the best use of taxpayers money?
yes it could have gone to another tory donor for providing nothing !
I get your point, and I’m not saying it is the best use of money. But the point of high speed rail isn’t to reduce journey times for the people who take the highspeed line, it reduces congestion on the regular lines.
Investing in high spees rail isn’t a problem, but tge horrendous mismanagement, we considerably over payed per mile of track as compared to equivalent high speed rail project in Europe
It wouldn;t be so expensive to create an articifical reef a mile or so off coast, electrify it and let it calcify- become seacrete. it will cost once but last for centuries. It would have the added benefit of providing shelter for young fish, allowing for faster and more sustainable restocking of the fishing grounds. There is also the carbon sequestration (in the form of carbonates).
The vision of the government in this area is too short sighted.
This may repeat other comments, but I don't doubt the inhabitants of Dunwich, Old Winchelsea, and other lost towns would have expressed similar views to some of those in the film, and their homes disappeared anyway. Maintaining low lying and vulnerable coastlines will become increasingly difficult and expensive, and painful and unpopular decisions will have to be made. It is part of a natural cycle, although it is accelerating because of climate change. I grew up near Beachy Head, and I have seen an increase in the rate of erosion during my lifetime. At Birling Gap, for example, part of the pub car park I used as a young man has disappeared over the cliff edge, along with some of the old coastguard houses, and if I live long enough, I may see the pub and rest of the houses gone.
I agree. At the end of the day nature will always beat man's efforts. I agree it would be a waste of time and money saving these small towns. Move out and accept the eventuality of what nature will do.
All 100% natural erosion that has always been the same. As long as their is waves and tide it will continue.
In Holland, the coastline doesn't move an inch. Invest in your coast. Come and lurn from us.
The woman thinks too much of bricks and mortar. I would take the money, build myself a little cottage in Portugal and spend Christmases in Austria or Switzerland
The south east is disappearing but the poor north is rising. Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth.
If you go to the other coast, where i was born, Southport, the coast is being reclaimed. Huge areas of former beach are now farmland. It’s just geography. Nothing is going to stop the forces of nature.
But it's not just the forces of nature. Man made climate change is speeding the whole process up
"Shoreline Management (govt)"" are the last people you should trust as competent.
It erodes one area of the coast, and dumps the nsedement on another area of the coast. As science established decades ago!
I bet if the prime ministers private residence were by the coast theyd find the funding to protect it!! I have always dreamt of living right by the coast, living an idyllic life......until videos like this appears and gives a reminder that the idyllic life unfortunately doesn't last forever. It was said on the video that the section of sand was due to heavy rain on land that had unstable sand and it wasnt the sea that did it. But what unstabled the sand in the first place? Surely that was the sea? So ultimately the sea was to blame!!
When I was at school in the fifties we were taught that Eastern England was subsiding beneath the sea. In the last ice age there was two miles of ice over Britain and when it melted the Pennines raised and the East Coast sunk and continues to do so at 1/8 inch per year. That equates to 1 foot per century. In my lifetime that is 9 3/8 inches. The only way the East Coast could be saved would be by building a sea wall from beyond Hull to the Thames including a Wash Barrage. How high would this be? Well that is interesting. The projection is that rising sea water levels could amount to 3 ft. The land drops 1 ft per hundred years. The tide rise is 2 ft at Gt Yarmouth bar. These numbers merely keep the numbers,stable there would be no improvement. The sea wall has to prevent the events of 1953 which I remember. So we would have to build a wall possibly 20 to 25 feet high with the footing commensurate. The amount of concrete would take the output of several wind farms for a couple of generations. The sad thing is the pumping of sand from off shore sea bed to build up the beach merely causes the bed to slip back to the hole. That is why to process has been abandoned in some places. Many of the properties up and down this area were old summer holiday residences bought cheap by people who guessed their lives would be shorter than the loss of land. For some that gamble failed. Some claim to have spoken to water engineers but these are people concerned with pipes and drainage. They should have spoken to flood engineers and geologists who look across national boundaries. Will the national community through the government make funds available. Not a chance because you are looking at a tax rate on top of current income tax that neither the government nor the electorate would accept. This subject,has surfaced through my lifetime every 8 to 10 years. The complaints are by incomers who wanted to live under East Anglian skies during retirement and despite enquiry took a gamble to some extent.
There will be some managed retreat; it is already happening and farmland under crop in Essex and Suffolk has been allowed to have the sea flood back into it by reducing the banks to sea level. Architects are providing potential schemes to allow certain areas potential viability for a period where there is sea incursions. Don’t shout about what the Dutch have done because their geology is different. We have been through all the arguments in the last 80 years. The truth is some people will not be told and resent the result of Nature and we know it has been going on from before history was written. If you don’t want erosion stay away from the coast and if you don’t wish to be flooded pick high ground. Some will call that callous but that is what we were taught at school, in Norfolk, in the fifties. It was a State school and they gave us a good education.
Thank you for this comment. Sensible and logical. I can see your education was excellent, from the way you write and think. Here in Australia, our coastline is way too big and population way too small to try to save eroding beaches. The council at Byron Bay (Australia's mainland eastern-most point) has told beachfront residents it won't be doing anything to save their multi-million dollar houses. This suits the rest of us as some bad effects of climate change are being felt further inland - eg the city of Lismore lost a high school (permanently closed) and hundreds of houses to floods a few years ago. A big shopping mall/centre in Brisbane went under at the same time and has never re-opened.
Does anyone know about Harlech castle and the fact that it was right on the sea when built. It is now quite a way inn land.
same as chester, the river used to go right up to chester town when the romans were there.
@@brandmotivoThe city of Chester and the river Dee still flows into the city but the racecourse was built on part of the land which was reclaimed.
Also Berkeley, Gloucs which used to be a port in the medieval period.
@@hendrixinfinity3992 Gloucester was a port until the mid 20th century.
@@chrishartley4553 Gloucester was a port until recently because of the Gloucester and Sharpness canal. Berkeley is 5 miles away from any navigable water.
Manchester is also a port due to a canal.
The guy from the council should have mentioned the implications for areas further down the coast if Happisburgh was protected by sea defences. It would only exacerbate problems due to lack of sediment. A really challenging and unfortunate situation…
What the HELL is a "Coastal Manager." I'm just about to apply for a job as a "Lesser-spotted Flycatcher Watcher" on an annual salary of £60,000. .... Do vacancies for coastal managers come up very often ? If I don't get the job of "Lesser-spotted Flycatch Watcher", I would be happy to take a job as "Coastal Manager"
Just down the coast when there is a very low tide you can see remains of a forest exposed.
How long before Chichester is claimed by the sea ? A difficult coastline subject and one that should be addressed, well done for your output.
who cares... let nature do its thing.
And London!
What would over a 100 billion pound have done to protect Britains coastline instead of a quicker train journey? (hs2)
Insurance companies all over the world soon won't be insuring costal houses.
If you live near the coast good luck.
What Malcolm Kerby said at 23.43 is utterly correct. By spending absolutely VAST amounts of (taxpayer's) money to defend one small area, all you would achieve is to make that area a peninsular, then an island, and then, in a very short time, the island would be washed away. One CANNOT STOP coastal erosion
By the time our government has wasted money on committees, approval from the environmental surveying to ensure no animals will be affected, half the money is gone and then they will give up saying saying the funds required were not met. Our government is mired in policy and administration
Shell as in Royal Dutch Shell probably has some notion of what to do as well as having the funds and motivation to protect it's interests
Moral of the story, don't live or buy beside a coastline 😂
No sympathy for them whatsoever, why build on an eroding coastline Smh
Excellent broadcast standard video. I feel sorry for the people of Happisburgh and all the other coastal towns and villages that are losing their land to the sea. Blackpool and most of the Fylde Coast would be in a similar situation if £millions haven't been spent on hold the line defences over the years. Blackpool was given £73 million for sea defences in 2013 but have now been given another £118 million for new sea defences. Cleveleys a lovely coastal town north of Blackpool also have been given £millions to upgrade their sea defences over the years. They are currently working on sea defence work on one of their beaches. In fact all along the Fylde Coast £millions have been spent on sea defence and £millions more will be spent on future sea defence work.
🤦♂️the irony of Shell "helping" fight the impact of how they make their money😂
Surely someone could come up with an idea to break the waves something like they have in north bay Scarborough
The sea is a formidable part of nature! No arguments 😮
We are higher than the sea whereas Holland is lower than the sea. They have it all managed. It’s a shame but very British not to bother.
Imagine hiring national companies from other countries to run the rails and not build the infrastructure we need to survive the next century.
The whole island of Britain is tilted down to the east. The east coast is clearly not much higher than Holland.
The richest people complain about sea level rises, then buy houses on the coast…
This is nothing to do with rising sea levels but is natural coastal erosion. I used to go to Happisburgh back in 60s and it was eroding then.
@@rogersmith8339 true.
Get yourself a Pint in the pub while you can its a nice old county pub its still great local pub thats not been messed about, take your kids t walk the cliffs so someone will remember it
The ocean is taking back the land where it used to be millions of years ago
Excellent Presentation
Shell destroys Nigerian clean water ..
Yeah good investment...can became good place...👍..nice place ...😃
You can't hold the sea back wind storms rain people will have to leave and move it happened in sussex houses were going over the cliff it's sad
I remember back in the 1990's,Lot of the North cost was further out,Lot of its being washed in to sea,Lately,Floods not getting any better
When I buy a house I find out the erosion rate of the nearby coasts and river banks. If the property is less than one hundred years worth of erosion away from the coast, I don't buy it. Who would?
They were told that they were over 100 years from erosion.
Norfolk would be losing "Metres" of land. Unless you mean that there have been "meters" installed to measure those distances - but are themselves disappearing.
How long will it be till they have all gone. Should we start looking to move to a different country
1999 government coastal withdrawal bill just meant abandon our coast and people's homes and business to the sea. So where will this line be finally drawn? Especially as government doesn't like spending public money on things that matter, in my opinion? I remember a time, around 1995, when people talked about environmental refugees coming to the UK. Seems we can help them, but not our own people? And I can still remember when the sea breakers were removed, under the guise that these sea defences prevented beach sand moving around our coastline, a natural thing, it was claimed. Yet no one anything about the sand being removed from our coastline to build roads and tall buildings? Which makes me wonder if by removing so much sand, have we managed to speed up costal erosion? So who made money from doing this? Certainly not the people loosing there coastlines and homes?
Surely councils would not allow removal of sand from receding areas?
Go look at parts of Hopton and Corton, the new outer harbour at Gt Yarmouth is destroying them.
Thing is you can’t prevent nature. When we are a ball of water circulating tides daily rotating you’d think if you lived 1000m from the sea you should have some level of worry. Coastal erosion has existed hundreds of years. We had the dogger hills disappear in the last couple hundred years and will continue to lose land regardless of what we build. You as a person aren’t special. If you looked at Britain 1300 years ago and now you’d appreciate the fact we even still exist in the first place. Coastal lowland is a poor choice for settling full stop. You can’t expect to prevent Mother Nature because you want to sit in your checkered blanket sipping a cup of tea happily. That’s not how it works. Nature will run its course the Holocene epoch will end and we’ll all cook in a sauna before freezing again there isn’t anything we have to offer that can prevent or intervene. Best you can do is educate yourself and embrace it. Exciting times that bit by bit the planet is eroding itself while there’s hundreds of square miles of non affected land still. who ever do you think you are to question something we’ve all latched on to like parasites calling it our own. It’s comical.
Play with nature nature will take it's own course, Don't play with nature
Even King Canute couldn’t stop the tide
@@marybedward9381 Ah yes! That was why he showed he could fail. It was the last time people tried flattery upon him. Perhaps we could do with some ministers and prime ministers with the same perception!
I wonder what the Dutch would do? Do you think they would surrender their land?
Yes the cowards
No they are more competent at managing water and the sea. Rijkswaterstaat!
They would send in the Dykes ...
Lady owns a rental property but thinks she might move into a council house when hers falls into the sea.
There's a Coastline, it's not disappearing.
TRT world could also cover the terrible political situation at home, where a fash*ist dictator is in place, discriminating the Kurds and other minorities, biult himself a gigantic palace and built an insanely gigantic airport in biodiverse wetlands.
Good luck to her fair play to the sea 👏
We are a small island compared to some other countries so it should be paramount that we save our land from the sea and reclaim what is lost, but as always money is more important!
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Nature will have its way and future Britons will be building great lives in the mountains of Wales and Scotland. London will go the way of Doggerland.
There’s an American company that can dig under any house and secure it, then they can drag it inland. Fraction of the cost.
Yeah but most american Houses are lightweight, timber clad structures. Most UK houses are of Brick and mortar construction. Not saying it's impossible, but it would be So much harder in Britain than in the states.
Wood houses, not brick. Idiot
🤔🤔🤔🤔watching this with interest....i wonder how many old merchant vessels get scrapped , probably overseas, every year. Why not cut off their upper super structures or leave it....fill them with concrete, rubble....land fill and use them as a 'block ship ' as was done to defend harbours in ww1 and ww2......it would take the sea years to destroy these structures.....😊
Bradwell on Sea an Rainham in Essex have old barges Inc concrete ones at Rainham to do just that, and it's cheap solution
Tell it to the Dutch
East coast is sinking and west is lifting up contintal sift it is the world moving
Another cop out from another Tory MP.
Nowt new east coast eroding in places west coast,go to Southport soon they will have to extend the pier to reach the sea trees where growing on the beach now felled.Seems whole country is tipping after all use to be joined to the continent?
It's all about the money 🤑💰
Off Sea Palling there is a man made reef and when viewed on google earth you can see the effects of it on the adjacent coastline.
If you build on an eroding coastline, you eventually get what you deserve. Just because you are rich, means you deserve it even more.
We don't appear very stable
The fact that this programme was run and managed and produced by more foreigners that you can find in a truck in Dover a programme about the English coast being eroded is quite comedy value tbh..... 😂😂😂
I have sympathy.
But we can’t just fight the unfightable.
Personally I wouldn’t want to live in a Shell town. And one day that wall will fail too, it doesn’t look that special already.
And it’s interesting it’s not just sea erosion but comes from rain etc and landslides.
I wonder if the woman in the van give her name to the cops?
So this Council member guy keeps he was in the excuses about "money" and then he used the excuse about the "environment" the HS2 project is causing and will cause massive irreparable damage to local ecosystems not to mention the amount of pollution involved in the construction (Concrete and steel one of the most polluting products we use).
As for the taxpayers money spent on this project which is massively over budget and parts of it are now being cancelled, I'm sure it could have been used somewhere else instead the coastal erosion of an island the island that we live on would be a good idea 👌
He WONT ANSWER THE QUESTION !! No they don't care SO sorry for those who have and are losing their homes 🙏
It has been proven you just push the problem elsewhere, if you want to live near a cliff next yo the sea, do it at your risk
King Knut couldn't stop the tides why do fools think that they can?
As someone mentioned earlier the coast is not disappearing but just moving. Government can spend £8 million each day on hotels for non tax payers but for taxpaying joe public who find them selves in an unfortunate position, you are just not worth it
Do me a favour, answer the question !! Is this gadger a politician ? They're masters of dodging a straight answer
That one looked particularly dodgy! Shifting eyes, nodding, impatient while question being asked. Needs media training at least because you cannot instil empathy and genuine care for issues and constituents if it's not there.
Maybe we could use some of the overseas aid that we give to corrupt governments to help deserving folk like these🎉🎉🎉
Maybe you can stop scapegoating foreigners and get real -corrupt govt and corporate tax dodging parasites are to blame for the lack of money needed for infrastructure
The Rwanda money for example
I'm sorry, but the fact is that the earth is not static!!
The earth is constantly changing!!
The Mississippi Delta has gained vast tracts of land just in the past 2000 years.
You loose a house to the sea.... then you buy another, more fool you really
The coast line can be saved,shell proved it.
Partout dans le monde, toute maison construit pres de la mer disparaitrons a cause de erosion. Ok faut construire dans les Terres.
Building on Sand is a Red Flag
why the f can MPs never have a can do ,push, positive attitude ! No business would ever exist if entrepreneurs took the same attitude
Our coastline is dissapesring under the weight of immegrants an rubber dinghys
Put those prisoners to work lol
It can be saved, they just want to spend the money elsewhere.
Crikey the British coastline is receding even more than my hairline and my gumline combined!
Hmm if I only had the money that the government spend on their expenses i could probably build a couple of mile of defences.🤔 We the people, the government's employers (ish) we would like you to fix Britain's coastline if you don't we'll get somebody else who will👍
All 100% natural erosion that has always been the same. As long as their is waves and tide it will continue.
The UK is going to split along the teams and the hull inlet along the Ouse. I've seen this over and over.
Thanks HS2 AND WONT SAME THE COUNTY I WOOD CALL IT COUNTY BUT TO MUCH HAPPENED TO ME TO😢😢😮😢😮😢😮😢
Take a look at geological history over the last million years! Nomadic people that lay down fixed monetary roots get upset or surprised!
Boring presntation and I stopped watching after 7 minutes
If we are losing our coast line.
Atleast the ilegal imagrants cant land hear
Anywhere not rock is suffering, lots of places are one spring tide plus a bad onshore storm away from disaster .Fancy not mentioning shells role in undermining climate catastrophe response thereby causing extra erosion through inaction .
What a silly lady. Something that has happened from the start of time, will continue. This "abandonment" is not a thing. Erosion is a thing.
Trying to control nature
Doom panic worries fear wow .😅