Thousands of tonnes of rock have plummeted down the 200ft cliff face at Whipsiderry Beach, a site previously home to Paradise Hotel, in Newquay, Cornwall.
Dramatic footage shows the massive rockfall next to a luxury development site which has been earmarked for seven new second homes worth £7million.
After the latest rock fall they have now called on Cornwall Council to stop the development altogether, claiming it is 'an absolute miracle' how no one has died. They claimed in the latest application the cliff was 'more stable' than before and there was now 'exposure of good quality rock on its face'.
He added: 'In a report recently it said that the cliff was more stable now than it was before which is obviously not true as we have just seen. It is now in Cornwall Council's hands. The Save Whipsiderry Cliffs campaign said the latest incident, which happened on April 13, should mean the scheme was now scrapped for goodLiving Quarter Properties has planning permission for seven terraced houses above the beauty spot
It suggests that rock bolting and meshing with a regular maintenance and renewal regime would provide sufficient stabilisation to reduce erosion to an acceptable level to provide protection to the proposed development for at least 125 years.
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