Norfolk's collapsing coastline: I won't give up my home that's falling into the sea | Times Reports
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- Residents of Hemsby in Norfolk are battling to save their homes as accelerating coastal erosion is causing large amounts of sand to be washed away.
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Sorry mate, when you say "I moved in 2017" I thought, surely he meant 1977. But no, 2017. Yes, I am blaming the victim. The estate agents must've seen you coming a nautical mile away.
OK, but what's the point of this? A guy moves into a house that's built on sand 15 feet from the sea and is surprised when 6 years later it's falling onto the beach. The UK has lost 60% of its landmass to the sea in the past 20,000 years. It's not a new thing. People need to stop being so dull, that's the problem.
I agree on this
He knew the risks.
I fell asleep half way through reading
@@cherellegrant7439 like most people do when you speak, Cherelle. (Dumb name too).
@@carltonbreezy 🥱
ITS ALL DOWNHILL TO NORWICH ONCE YOU GET TO STALHAM.
the Norfolk coast is changing shape every year. I live in Martham which is 2.5 miles from the coast. Maybe it time to buy a home a bit more inland. Your home has survived this winter, but I think time is running out for your house. I've seen the damage to Happisburgh, Winterton and Hemesby, you can't hold back the power of nature.
It's nothing new! Our coastline, mostly sand and chalk, has been eroding since we parted company with the rest of Europe during the last Ice Age over 8,000 years ago. The East Coast is known for this.
The house above has now gone.We just returned home from a weeks break.Walked along there this morning.Was there this time last yr and the first thing i noticed was of course the missing house,when we were walking along that road/path this time round.
Our coastline is always changing. Some places we lose land and we gain land in other places.
Sorry mate, but if you choose to live in a sandcastle, don't act surprised when it's swept away by the tide.
Very sad,, but the house is obviously in the wrong place ...
Because this hasn't been happening for millions of years 🤣🤣
Top tip dont plant a house on the beach and moan when the tide comes in...🤔🤔🥴🥴🥴
He wants to be careful or one day he’ll wake up in his bed 10 miles out at sea
What exactly does he think the council should be doing? And I’d love to know what he bought it for in 2017..I’ll bet it was given to him 😅😅
95 grand
Can’t they dismantle their houses and move back, I thought the council offered land to residents?
"Something should've been done..." This is nature sir... What should've been done, is that you shouldn't have been allowed to build there.
You chose to live near the sea though? You knew the risks.
Looks more like a shed 😂
Living near water ( especially rivers and seas) may be nice , but it has its consequences!
He sounds like King Canute.
How so? The story goes that his advisors said he was so powerful that he could hold back the tide. The king thought this so ridiculous that he went to the beach to prove to his sycophantic cronies that he indeed couldn’t do any such thing. So the story goes.
I’ve always thought old tyres filled with concrete and stacked a certain way would make good sea defence. I worked in Dorset on sea defence. We filled large wire baskets with pebbles and built walls with them.
Madness... The coastline is dynamic, huge risks buying and building on that close to the sea.
At the start they said 'rising sea levels and extreme weather events' caused this...Since the early 70s they said by the millennium the fens and many parts of Norfolk would be under 20 feet of water. 20 feet. I'm pretty sure here we are in 2023 and the sea has not risen by anywhere near that........other wise my bungalow would be under water. Its not Also..Hemsby has long been known as an area effected by erosion. Choosing a house near the beach may not have been the wisest decision. I feel for him but that's how it is.
Will going net zero stop waves from hitting the coast line? Answer: No.
Please, you cannot fight forces of nature...
Agreed - never buy a house in a hurricane corridor, on top of sand or at the lowest point of a flood prone area.
I'm glad we have the forces of nature
So sad as I can see exactly why someone would choose to live there. I've walked on that beach many years ago and I admired the properties. Such a shame for someone's dream home to be lost.
At Sea Palling, on the Norfolk Coast large stone islands were built off shore. They haven't just stopped the erosion, it has been reversed.
I helped put them pylons in with Titan maritime by pile driving , I visited last year they seem to be holding up
It has stopped the erosion it has not reversed it.
and the uk no states is sending another 20 million in aid to gaza, should we not be helping our own people first
@@daveberry2177 I'll reply to that on a politics, geopolitics channel. You are way off topic Dave.
@@Stuboy Bravo - Yes, they have done an excellent job and they are a site to behold - Massive!
Erosion has caused £10million worth of improvement to Hemsby
In the late 1970s, these were holiday homes the water was turned off during the winter and you were not allowed to live in them. Bad idea to allow all year round occupation, no expert could ever predict the rate of erosion regarding sand heaps. They are not brick built. If I owned one of those properties behind, I would be most worried, as soon as the sand cliffs go then Hemsby will be flooded. It's impossible to hold back the tide without millions of pounds. These bungalows have been falling into the sea since around 1980 ish, my parents owned two.
prehaps we could let them live in hotels
Wtf...estate agents 👀 you coming 😆
It's just the way the sea behaves at a coastline, nature red and raw. In Devon south of Totnes, there are two lost villages Hallsands and Beesands, lost to the sea in the early twentieth century. It's so sad.
The bloke is wasting his time. Very sad situation.
He moved to this house Nov 2017! Surprising.
I believe his house has gone now I just walked along the beach and you can see his reinforcements but the white house you see in the drone footage is really close to the cliff edge.
Stubborn man against the power of mother nature won't win, who ever sold you that ticking time bomb of a house needs to take as much blame as yourself. If was him I would put it back on the market for some film company to buy and they could use it in a disaster movie with practical effects instead of CGI. Move out man, you could be on the toilet when all hell breaks outs, value your life more than wood, bricks and what not.
I'm amazed at how these residents blame people. It's mother nature, sea levels rising......you can't fight it.....where's the water gonna go.
Check google earth there was not 30m of dune in 2017, you need to go back to 2006 to see that. He knew exactly what he was buying in 2017. Not surprised he got an injunction by him propping up the dune he just transfers the problem elsewhere.
I live near "Surfers Paradise" in Queensland, Australia, and rich people bought expensive land on the coast and on the beach. When nature intruded on their patch, they wanted everyone else to save them.
2017? Those cliffs have been collapsing forever. What didn’t you know?
Sea level hasn't risen.
I agree, I’ve lived by the coast most of my years and the high-tide is still the same level as it was 40 odd years ago.
The nearby by cliffs have certainly eroded due to wind and water effects.
Okay than, stay in your house 👍
Better buy a snorkel then me ‘ole love!!
Cheap "housing" (sheds) built on sand near the sea probably bought for a song! What do you expext?
Norfolk Coast is my favorite Stranglers album
Why has the South African Dolos not been used to stop this erosion. Look at the sea shore off PE and you will find them and realise that for many years now they have stopped the coast line of PE from eroding away. Simply and cost effective! A no brainer as far as I'm concerned!
what sea level rise??? more crap
I built an igloo once but it melted. I demand the gubbermint build me a more suitable home 🙄
Coast erosions have been happening for millions of years. But it's not going carbon neutral soon enough that causes this apparently. Someone need to have a word with the volcano that just erupted for not being carbon neutral either.
The point they’re making is that climate change will cause differing sea conditions.
What amazes me about climate change deniers is that they exist at all. Literally the evidence is stating you in the face and you deny it😮
Shhhh…. Facts are racist !
Get Greta T on its case, she'll soon sort it out......NOT !
@@jamesbarbour8400 What’s she got to do with it?
@@sjthjsdreadfather4867 she's one of these advocates bringing our attention to climate change. If a volcano erupts and has an adverse effect, no doubt she'll tell it off !
Put big track tyres with sand in it three / Four layers will help stop the erosion
0:45 WHEN A PERSON DECIDES TO BUILD A HOUSE ON THE SAND ON THE TOP OF THE SEA SAND, THAT'S SOMETHING THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN WOULD HAPPEN SOONER OR LATER, BUT IT HAPPENED SOONER THAN LATER... WHO'S FAULT? THE OCEANS SEA FAULT OR FAULT FROM THOSE WHO BUILT HOUSES ON THE SAND THAT BELONGS TO THE OCEAN? MY GOODNESS, PEOPLE ARE UNBELIEVABLE...!!! I KNOW STUFF LIKE THAT SINCE I WAS A KID...!!!
More can and should be done to save the coast line,we are talking about people's lives here.
I had to watch the whole video to find out, is this guy brave and has an actual plan, or is he just stupid. I’ll let you decide which I chose 😮
The government needs to be doing something to stop this, our country is small enough as it is without us losing it to the sea!
LMFAOOOO Do what? It's called NATURAL EROSION. Get a grip & learn some geography. No one forced this person to build on a literal unstable sand dune.
@@Malfoy1594 OK do nothing about it then! The erosion is not going to stop! Will you be lyfao then!?
At what cost you wont beat nature and rising sea
Levels.Funnily enough Scotland is rising as the
Land was pushed down in
The ice age by the weight
Of the ice on top.
Well if you love your home so much that you are willing to go down with it do be it
If u can't see the sea sees u
Coastal erosion: I won't give up my home that's falling into the sea | Times Reports 1126am 8.3.23 why didnt you invest in coastal defences, then? loads of concrete. loads of concrete. the massive facades in margate are pretty impressive. the local bigwigs should have taken heed of those defences... p.s without being flippant his nibs, here, good on him by the way... looks a tad familiar.
You know how long the British coastline is? It would cost tens of billions if not hundreds
It does cost a LOT and if the council are struggling it's private land why would they help? That's what conveyancing is for it does the searches etc... sue them!
However if you've got money anything can be done... have a look at Dawlish Station on Devon coast that didn't come cheap but it's now safe!
@@clementinechristenson Comments on ‘Norfolk's collapsing coastline: I won't give up my home that's falling into the sea | Times Reports’ 0205am 30.10.23 government should and could invest in sea line defences. and it'd put a few navvy minded folk to work. go see the remarkable coastal defences of Margate area... i was spellbound. all the time and effort not to mention the scale... and they have stood the test of time. .. i mean, the white cliffs would loose their whiteness and the general character of the coast would look like a morally bankrupt brutalist nightmare but... i mean, just go to margate and have a gander...
V sad. I hope he and his family will. Be ok
I hope he didn’t pay more than fifty quid for that house.
Were these "unfortunate" landowners, C O M P E N S A T E D, for their losses?
He doesn't want to be anywhere else? I, for one, am just happy I am not where he is. I am not silly enough to think climate change and rising sea levels won't affect me if I choose to live just metres away from a steadily eroding beach.
Nobody could have foreseen it
Why dont they do what they are doing in wales make sand dunes with Christmas trees
Our inept government will no doubt increase their tax for buying near the sea
The Bible warns us never to build our houses upon the sand, but only on to solid rock.
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The foolish man built his house upon the sand,
The foolish man built his house upon the sand,
The foolish man built his house upon the sand
& the rain came tumbling down,
The rain came down & the floods came up,
The rain came down & the floods came up,
The rain came down & the floods came up & the foolish man’s house fell down,
The wise man built his house upon the rocks,
The wise man built his house upon the rocks,
The wise man built his house upon the rocks & the rain came tumbling down,
The rain came down & the floods came up,
The rain came down & the floods came up,
The rain came down & the floods came up & the wise man’s house stood firm.
Lol 😂.
The bible didn't even need to say that, it should just be common sense
Well.....there goes the neighbour hood....eventually.
Pssst...hey...100 miles to your right...!...there live the Dutch...they might know a thing or two about keeping the sea at bay...
Local council gave permission when the houses were built, maybe they should be liable.
Hey if you see this lance or if someone knows him please could you reply to this comment. I'd like to speak to him about the history of the area around his plot.
Sand is a tidal energy barrier. Sand is in short supply after high demand for concrete as China grew in the 2010s. Silica is not getting down river thanks to dams, so there is no renewal, either.
More powerful waves are now evident on all dredged coastlines around the world, with the US Florida and West coast coastlines rapidly crumbling. Weather and sea-level rises are blamed.
The level is the same. Erosion and an increase in sea level are not the same at all. Sand dredging and extraction, hydro planner interventions are causing increases in tidal energy which is scouring cliff faces. Most actual climate scientists pour scorn on the fallacious sea level rise stories. To add to that, Dogger bank was once a forest, and Norfolk is famous for erosion. Utter shame on the so-called journalists and their predilection towards NGO funded bunk.
you need to face reality, get head out of the sand and wake up.
MOVE
Beurocracy 🙃