Why Norfolk clifftop homes are falling into the sea and who is to blame | ITV News
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- Thirteen homes on top of a cliff at Hemsby near Great Yarmouth in Norfolk are at risk of crashing into the sea after two 'Beast from the East' weather events speeded up coastal erosion in the area.
Local residents are calling for more government funding to provide better sea defences. The Environment Agency says the local authority Great Yarmouth Borough Council is responsible for coastal protection but the council says it can't afford it and is that it does not have a statutory duty to protect land it doesn't own.
The Environment Agency says this part of the Norfolk coast is subject to 'managed re-alignment' which it defines as 'allowing the shoreline to move naturally, but managing the process to direct it in certain areas."
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My family lost a house to similar erosion many years ago and its heartbreaking, however I believe the issue is councils allowing developers etc to build on water lines in the first place. All very scenic and beautiful but very unstable.
And the issue why they even build these houses are people who buy them...
im gonna use this for my project thank you
Many of the houses that have fallen into the sea and that are susceptible to that same fate in future were built at a time when the coastline was much further away and information regarding erosion was not well documented or widespread amongst the civilian population. As much as I love to blame councils for their many mishaps this is not one they can be fairly judged for. That aside though, it is absolutely their responsibility to fully compensate the people who lose their homes this way, especially if they had previously deemed these properties not at risk for the foreseeable future.
No blame to the council. Its not a nanny state
Dont live on a cliff you dummies
Once upon a time there were trees along those shores that held the soil together and replaced sediment loss with their leaves. Then came man and chopped all the trees down. Now the ocean eats the land and man stands and watches wondering why ....
@James Mara They had 500yds and other houses infront of these when built. Did you not listen?
Naughty Finger 300-400 yards*
@Gorgon Don What are you going on about?
Geno J Geno J instead of trolling me maybe you should question the comment I replied to calling the builders idiots for putting houses on the cliff edge when they didn’t, ok video states 400yds since 60’s but still got houses there since 30’s, i live 35 miles away an know the area well, or is it you just don’t like my username and immaturity to feel the need to troll.
I agree. This is the trouble too with towns that are starting to flood year-in, year-out. The trees sucked up moisture and kept the land below moist which meant heavy rainfall could be taken up easily rather than run off the top soil.
How is anyone "to blame" for natural physical processes which have been going on for millions of years?
EASYTIGER10 yaer
That erosion isn't natural it's because of offshore dredging.
@@HelloHello-nr2em What's that got to do with coastal erosion ?
@EASYTIGER10 to blame? No one, just maybe the bloody idiots that don't understand there is a difference between natural and artificial processes. I suppose you are one of those idiots.
If anyones to blame, its those who built houses anywhere near coastal erosion areas?
Who lives on beach front property without huge windows to enjoy the view? Weird!
Ridiculous to build houses so close to the cliff edge!
As stated, when built this house was 300-400 yards in land. There was even another row of houses behind it years ago.
@@statto74 yea tough luck though
I send my deep condolences to those people who lost their sweet homes,
I know the feeling of those people as i had lost my one.
In greece there are ancient ruins that were once thriving settlements now at the bottom of the sea but it's found out like what happening all over the world the southern part of greece is sliding into the sea and not rising sea levels as 1st thought.
Britain east coast is tilting in the same manner.
disturb one part of the coast and you will get a problem elsewhere along the coast!
how can they blame the council and government for the weather?
If there is no provision of information regarding high-risk areas that the government or councils know of, just to answer the question.
I was thinking the same thing. I understand the government does not help everyone but they cant control the sea.
Or for their own bad judgements on building or buying in these areas!
Could have a home mover move the house instead of losing everything
"Could have a home mover move the house instead of losing everything". And just how cost effective would that be?
I don't know why they would wait so long to pack up and get out.
JKL it happened over one weekend.. 7 metres of cliff was eroded in one weekend. They was aware of the erosion but aren’t you slightly shocked that 7 metres has gone in such a short period of time?
@@ellisjames3478 Right let's start talking English. 7 Yards is about 21 feet.
If the sea was 21 feet away from my place id be long gone. I would nt wait for the last few yards to erode......... unless you were trying to make some TV drama scene for news that is........
David Farmer some people are stubborn.. would you want to move out of the house you’d grown up in and had memories in? don’t think you realise these ppl can’t just sell up and move away.. they’ve literally lost all their money and their house so they are affectively homeless.. so yes, if i was in the situation, i would probably make a point of sticking it out til the last possible day if i had nowhere else to stay.. if they didn’t stay, no one would realise the impacts erosion really has so we should probably thank these people for making us aware of this horrible issue...
Mr.@@ellisjames3478
It mat be ebst to take your points in reverse order.
1) Of course we know the issue these people are facing.
It has been well publicised through out my living memory ( approx half a century)
2) TV s so literal and immediate
Yet these folk knew this was coming for many years ...
So there is rather more to this than meets the eye. Don't you think.
3) Perhaps the rest is relatively clear at this point.... especially if you ahve family....
Once again the tv companies are always on the look out for drama or sensation to catch viewing numbers.
Dont think im not sympathetic ; i am, but watching folk hastily packing up belongs with waves lapping at their feet doesnt add to me.
@@ellisjames3478 Not worth your life though. Like homeowner who think spraying their roof with a garden hose will stop a raging wildfire from consuming the house. Sometimes you just need to admit defeat and get out of the way and live.
Those cliffs have been falling for a 100 years , whatever we do won't stop it,
Why did they buy there , it's like buying a house beside the m25 , and telling the government it's noisy,,
I would never live near the coast, there's a river half a mile away but we live high on a hill, thank goodness. poor people
Was a foolish man who built his house upon the sands
Must have too much money to have any sense "!!🤦🏻♂️
Old song us kids sang during morning assembly at primary school in the 1970s lol
Mmm. What was it someone said about building a house on sand? I know it doesn't bring any comfort to those losing their homes. The authorities need to reassess their decision making when giving permission for building on coastline.
In some areas of the USA, the Army Corp. of Engineers determine how close to water you can build.
It sounds like some people have brains.
@ali grotts --- Every time I hear anything about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers I am totally impressed.
It seems they must have the brightest brains and the most _'get-it-done-and-properly'_ group of people working for them. A truly impressive group in the U.S. Army.
Geology 101
Cliffs are formed due to land erosion most by the sea and some by the wind
Sea Defenses will merely delay the inevitable
Why risk building a house there?
It was also the removal of vegetation like trees that stabilises the soil. There's nothing holding the soil
@@supernoodles908 Not government's fault for that either... people should know they are responsible for their decisions to build or Buy in these areas!!
@@janlovesmany6058 did I say anything about government??? No I didn't.
Don't shoehorn you "government bad" ideals on me. I don't care
Omg you better hurry, Paul! Doesn't look like you have THAT much free time to stand around and chit-chat! 😂
Save the planet? The planet is looking after itself. 🌏
Arrests my case, that is what I'm talking about. ( die kool is deur die kerk) ( the bullet is through the church) it's to late !! The sea is rising. Cheers.
I blame the people building the houses and the people who live in them. It's inevitable. You know it's going to happen eventually. It's not the safest place to build on clearly. Erosion happens everywhere.
It could happen to you one day living in some mainland area.
There is no one to blame. Help the people with a new house on a safe place and that will the cheapest and mean cheap.
Mate I know I’m 2 years late but when they were built the land wasn’t eroding
@@gokillurself6714 LMAO 2yrs lad
imagine waking up at night going for a pee and dropping into the sea 🤯🤯🤯🤯
It would be one hell of a toilet flush!
Lol
I don't hear anything about the post-war sea dredging for shingle for building material that literally carved out the sea bed and removed the natural barrier that prevented such drastic erosion.
I think it,s called errosion, a natural process.
comma?...
The sea will reclaim the land in time there will be no land just sea all round the world has it was when the world first formed.
Not renewing the wooden defences just leaving gaps that leads to damage . So local people in charge with a budget would do a better job .
Get a big tractor and some chains and this house could be moved. It doesn't seem to have any footings.
I like your idea of the mobile home, perhaps all homes close to the sea should be made mobile.
The sea is responsible. duh!
They bought them in a area of rapid Coastal erosion. Why the hell should others pay for their folly.
This is very sad to see your lifetimes work dropping into the sea it must be heartbreaking to watch, the people to blame are the local authorities who gave planning permission to build their in the first place. To build houses or anything else on such sandy land is asking for trouble as has proved here, it is even more foolish to buy one of these properties. The developers couldn't give a toss about the long term effects of building on such bad ground, they've had their money and that's the end of it as far as their concerned it's left to others to sort their mistakes out and pay for. I had a house in North Wales a few years ago and during a bad storm the sea flooded a huge area including a golf course across the road from me, it was turned into a giant lake and took months to drain off, if that water had of got any higher it would have flooded mine and hundreds of others around me, I sold it and moved to higher ground inland just in case.
Its nobodys else's fault they shouldn't have bought property there dummy
they did not have planning permission. they were holiday homes built illegally.
The same thing is happening on the west coast here in the United States. There are homes and apartment buildings at risk of falling off the cliff down to the beach.
Don’t build there?
U have 200 IQ
The whole area with be gone in a few decades. What a waste of money and time it is putting coastline defences in. Demolish the whole area and re home people. Nothing you can do to stop this.
maybe dont build your house on the beach?
what a whole load of doublespeak
This is so very sad. I feel for these people, house has gone!!! Very traumatic. Those who build the houses on sinking sand should pay compensation. They should have known when the land was tested for subsidence.
Will not make anyone feel better. Look at California's pacific coastal erosion. Florida after the hurricane goes through. Even on the Great Lakes in Michigan. If this keeps up ALOT more will erode in time. Truly sad for all these people. The force of the ocean is truly formidable. Lake water too.
I think Boris, Liz, and Rishi should personally pay for it!🙀
Not seeing a problem here.
There is a whole row of new homes right behind the row that is falling into the sea.
When they go there is another row behind - everyone will get a nice ocean view over time
So true.
It's everyone else's fault.
why does my teacher keep on makin me watch this for geography
Most likely trying to blame it on so-called climate change propaganda!!
@@janlovesmany6058 wut
We need the government to pay us after we lose our house to the ocean, after it was built on sand? 🙄
I was there only a few weeks ago, and the road that was shown in that video is now closed off as it is now the cliff edge!!!
I think it really isn't no ones fault everyone blames the government for everything..
it's brexit. England receding from the EU. Its the government's fault.
(that was a tongue in cheek remark).
How the hell is it the governments fault?
Dredging
no coastal management
Xavier Entwistle. You want to dredge the coastline!? Wtf are you on about?
Tatty Lashes Because the government really should be taking steps to manage the coastline. They really need to be talking to the Dutch right now and coming up with ideas.On the other hand, these people are stupid buying building houses that close to the coastline
@@krullewietje Too busy running around building condo's the homeless can't afford!
When I saw the headline I felt sure they'd be talking about Happisburgh, but no... wow!
The government should help? Why?
How’s this going? Any updates?
Didn't anyone notice that light houses are only built on ROCK?
Check Happisburgh lighthouse for starters. You'd be supprised.
Why would any insurance company go near these homes...guarantee they would have to pay out sooner than later. Looks like they are built on fine sand.
I suspect the owners only had contents insurance as when my in-laws owned the property first seen in this video they were definitely unable to insure the property itself.
The council doesn’t mind charging rates and taxes every year but doesn’t have the money to compensate? Bit rough.
High tide and a north easterly wind. She's sat there like 😍 "any minute now"
Nice to see that our government is doing so much to help our East Coast environmental refugees, isn't it?
There is no stopping the ocean. Climate change is speeding the process, but this is not a surprise. People need to stop building on the edge of the sea. Local governments need to legislate safe building areas. Human beings need to stop building on the coasts, in areas prone to wildfires and landslides, in the desert. It is not possible to protect coastal homes and the public should not have to foot the bill for costly measures that ultimately will fail.
Local governments cannot prevent building on flood plains let alone prevent building on vulnerable cliff edges. Look at the thousands of properties currently flooded.
Christine Pierce That's not an ocean. It's the NORTH SEA. Anyway those houses were built decades ago and nowhere near the cliff edge. It's the east winds that erodes the cliff breaking it off and so eventually there's no land left. People shouldn't live so near the sea.
THIS IS JUST SHOCKING TO IMAGINE.
what is the cost of life
quite shocking, its really scary that the sea can move inland so quickly!.. by the way i like the newsreader girl.. she's pretty :)
She is so pretty that I can't take my eyes of her.
speaking of sad stories whoever gave her that haircut should be held responsible
@@dubes5594 lololol
Why live on a cliff
Ikr
bojo is to blame for controling the weather
Might they consider Chesil Bach, Portland, Dorset as an example...?....Chesil Beach is a very narrow strip of land which has endured for a long long time. Chesil Beach, faces the rigours of the channel and are made up of pebbles which ROLL with each advancing wave, whatever motion whatever storm. With each wave , the force energy is simply nutralised, taken out by the rolling motion of thee pebbles.
Same in USA. Realtors and developers don’t care about buyers. These vultures are to blame.
well they wont get eu funds now
Unicornul Sarvy no they won’t EU can waste their money not ours , sorry but if you want a sea view don’t buy a front seat
Very charitable
I cannot understand why Gabian Baskets aren;t placed at the foot of the cliffs with the netting pinned to the cliff with concrete poured over it?
I wonder if they could use some kind of barrier that allowed water though, but blocked sand. The idea would be that it would cause the sand to build up the beach from where the barrier is. Eventually, the beach would be bigger and protect the cliff.
I suspect that attempts further down the coast to prevent beaches eroding eg. groins may have something to do with it. Preventing the beach at Hemsby building up by restricting the sand and gravel moving up the coast and thus protecting the cliff from the waves.
Star moving those smaller homes. A crane can lift the smaller ones. Got to think of technology and large machinery as helpful.
// but if your plot is mostly gone, where will you put the house down? On neighbors plot?
It's time to move.. nature at work
It is stupid building houses so close to the sea in the first place
If you change the land when you build. Amke sure the trees are not holding the soil together..
I would NEVER live close to the Sea/Beach. I would rather live in Tornado Alley.
Incredibly sad good folks losing a home. Why people forget the power of the ocean troubles me though
Who the hell builds houses on sand dunes next to the ocean for goodness sakes? The fact that these were holiday homes, suggests that they were never intended for permanent residency. That said, half a million pounds compared to losing dozens, even hundreds of homes seems like an insignificant cost. Worst comes to worst, they can all contribue £10k each to save themselves surely?
This is sand dunes - it's unlikely that there were ever trees growing there.
Answer is at 4:17
Good luck. I had the same thing happen to my home on Lake Ontario. All levels of government told me to go pound sand
Coastlines are always moving, it is not going to stop just because someone builds on it, and no amount of human intervention is going to stop it!
When my wife said I want to live near the sea I said two things.. I want to be at least half a mile in land and up the top of a big hill.
what they should do is build a perspex house it has to be water tight though so when the sea claims the land the house will float
"build a perspex house it has to be water tight though". Best of luck with that one!
will it be clear perspex
Stupid should never happen basalt blocks should be placed at the erosion area same as Yarmouth new harbour area,that will stop people loosing their homes ,basalt blocks will stop it
Seeing this every year I'd gone to visit this coast is absolutely heartbreaking to see and Government seemingly does nothing, just like the inland flooding, not sorting ways of securing flooding channels inland, or barriers but have millions for a NEW COMPUTER
brexit has cost £222 billion so far and its not really started. That sort of money could have been...
UK floods and this erosion isn't going away.
I did geography at school I learnt about erosion, and about depositing it in different areas, but people need to realise we are an island surrounded by sea, and the coast and land is being eroded at the time or encroached, I'm worried we are going to be totally encroached and only hills inland are going to be safe areas for people to live
does the seashore can not be planted by mangrove in there?
I grew up in a coastal town. Seawalls were built first so this wouldn't happen. These builders cheaped out and the inevitable happened. Sue the developers responsible.
😱🙏 I'm so sorry to see this to the people of England./UK.
This and sea level rise go hand in hand.
I hope they all have homes
Please guys don't think about sea guard, get out quick. Why did they build so near the sea? Seems the sea is moving up steadily. What a shame.
Sea defences will only slow it down for a while or push it farther down the coast...
Sad to see this happening. I would think that anamil feed bagsfilled with sand would make a ggood barier especially after a few tides, they would sink or be buried, increasing their effectiveness. I have heard of old cars and lorries being used to form an artificial reef as well ass tyres chained together to encourage sand to build up. Surely something could be tried
Dosen't the BIBLE TELLS YOU not to build your HOUSE on sand?
I BUILT MY HOUSE ON WATER, BUT IT'S OK I'M A PLUMBER, SORRY I MEAN PLONKER. LOL.
The people in biblical times didn't have architectural technology to build on sand. Today we do.
Elizabeth Nichols no, the bible doesn’t _me_ anything. Being an atheist I make my own decisions, I don’t rely on an imaginary friend who tell me how I can beat my slaves!
@@JulieWallis1963 typical angry militant atheist. Prob hate your life. Most atheist do.
@@madamebutterfly851 Sad aren't they, someday all who deny the Bible God's word I'll regret their foolishness for eternity!... Also I could barely understand what she wrote here!
Copy what they are doing in Queensland Australia, build large groins pointing out to see and dump large amounts of sand. Sea walls are not the answer, you need to stop the beach from being washed away !
We also need educating people on getting the maximum drainage in your garden from the rain, that is to stop putting down concrete and decking or slabs and cutting down their trees all because people have become lazy to cut the grass or pruning their trees
Sand cliffs could be stabilised by injecting a solidifying resin.🤔
And fitting waffle boarding to the base of the sand cliffs.
Anglia Water will be charging the home owners for all the water loss. lol. Looks like the pipe is filling up the sea so the rest of the houses dont have long. lol.
Looks like the ones who are supposed to keep the land and shores safe are not doing what they are paid to do. If they saw the shore losing to the sea years before, they should have done something about it to protect the houses and people.
I feel sorry for theas people, but theas properties were never build as permanent residence, they were holiday homes with people allowed to use them from Easter till October. Planning/ local authorities should never have allowed permanent residency use.
Blame the Sea it’s relentless! Who is it’s lawyer!
There is lots they the local authority could do to stop this. It takes the will and action 🤔
any idea how to stop the waves? Build a 20 feet high wall on sand?
Blame the nature.
The ground where the reporter stands in the video is probably in the sea by now
Allowing the country to be eroded by the sea... maybe hire the Dutch?
They did.
I FEEL FOR IGNORANT PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T HAVE WISDOM BEFORE INVESTING IN A SAFE PROPERTY BUT WHO ONLY THOUGHT OF SEEING THE SEA, THEN THE SEA CAME TO TAKE WHAT IS HIS!!!
WHY people buy homes there? Erosion is always happening!
This is called *natural* shore erosion. It's been occurring since the beginning of time. The only difference today is the dramatic rise in shoreline homes and structures due to a dramatic rise in population levels.
Who should finance this?
The home owner should, be it a private party or a bank.
Mortgage the property and if that's not enough then the property literally isn't worth saving.
Why is the government getting involved?
Cnut says 'go back!'