Climate change experts and homeowners are calling on the Government to introduce stronger legislation to ensure local authorities consider climate resilience for new developments elle_odwyer reports
In these highly risky areas there is unlikely to be any new house building going on – East Riding Council said it had created a zone in 2016 to limit development – though redevelopment further inland may still be allowed to occur if people are moving their homes or caravans back from the edge.
He estimates his property has eroded from 48 metres before the cliff edge to the 15 metres currently remaining. “That was when I had a full garden, and there was a road, and another 60 odd feet of cliff before that. But in 2005 it started eroding rapidly, everything turned turtle and obviously their predictions weren’t true.”
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