Nine more Norfolk coast homes identified as collapse risk

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 5 Nov, 07:40 · Archive

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has identified nine properties in Newport and Hemsby as being at imminent risk of becoming unsafe.

Nine properties – six cottages in Newport and three homes on Fakes Road in Hemsby – have been identified by Great Yarmouth Borough Council as being at imminent risk of becoming unsafe due to coastal erosion. Owners have been informed and told to 'plan to leave'.

The identification comes after contractors demolished 26 homes on The Marrams and Fakes Road last winter judged to be at risk of collapsing into the sea. Giles Bloomfield, coastal manager at the borough council, said the nine properties have 'moved into the 10m risk zone' and the council is 'monitoring and planning at the moment'. The homes are now 10 metres away from the distance at which the council considers them structurally dangerous enough to demolish.

Residents have expressed distress at the situation. Sandra Lomas, 71, who lives in Newport Cottages but not in one of the identified properties, said she is 'petrified' and called for coastal defences to be realigned.

Nine more Norfolk coast homes identified as collapse risk — Image: Norwich Evening News

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Nine more homes on Norfolk coast at risk of collapsing into seaGreat Yarmouth Borough Council has identified nine properties – six cottages in Newport and three homes on Fakes Road in Hemsby – as being at imminent risk of becoming unsafe.Norwich Evening News · 4 Nov, 17:16
Nine more homes on Norfolk coast at risk of collapsing into seaGreat Yarmouth Borough Council has identified nine properties – six cottages in Newport and three homes on Fakes Road in Hemsby – as being at imminent risk of becoming unsafe.Eastern Daily Press · 4 Nov, 17:11

In this story: Great Yarmouth Borough Council · Newport · Hemsby · Giles Bloomfield · Sandra Lomas · Norfolk

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