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I've been banging on a big drum about rising sea levels & seaside properties being next to worthless for ages now.
Watch any property series & you can guarantee that they'll bang on about sea views at premium prices.

I personally think that when the penny finally drops, you'll be hard pushed to give seaside properties away.

& so it begins, the north west Wales seaside village of Fairbourne will be left to its devices when defences are abandoned in 2050.
IMHO its a matter of time before many more villages or towns find themselves in the same boat (pun intended).
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In our bit of East Yorkshire, the issue is not flooding of low lying property as much as the loss of Land. we are losing the Cliffs to the sea at an alarming rate and have been since well before WW2. ALL of the WW2 coastal defence bunkers we played in as kids have long gone. One of the last is now only visble at low tide when I walked the dog Sunday. ERCC, have been under pressure to re-house people who bought properties some years ago, and now lost them over the cliff edge!. The Caravan site owners are moving row after row of Statics back each year. There are some here that are within 6 feet of the cliff edge. And will have to be moved before Easter for safety sake.

EDIT:- https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/new...ost-villages-forgotten-east-yorkshire-3751313
 
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ambulancekidd said:
I've been banging on a big drum about rising sea levels & seaside properties being next to worthless for ages now.
Watch any property series & you can guarantee that they'll bang on about sea views at premium prices.

I personally think that when the penny finally drops, you'll be hard pushed to give seaside properties away.

& so it begins, the north west Wales seaside village of Fairbourne will be left to its devices when defences are abandoned in 2050.
IMHO its a matter of time before many more villages or towns find themselves in the same boat (pun intended).
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It won't be the first,,quite a few lost years ago.BUSBY.

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I was up there this year on my first jolly fantastic views. I'd buy for the right price, I'm not planning to be here in 30 years....
 
Podney said:
Same problem in Norfolk and Suffolk. Very sad for those affected. But of course we needn’t worry about global warming.....hahaha....bollox
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Was happening centuries ago before Industrial revolution and pollution from motor cars etc etc.BUSBY.
 
PeteH said:
In our bit of East Yorkshire, the issue is not flooding of low lying property as much as the loss of Land. we are losing the Cliffs to the sea at an alarming rate and have been since well before WW2. ALL of the WW2 coastal defence bunkers we played in as kids have long gone. One of the last is now only visble at low tide when I walked the dog Sunday. ERCC, have been under pressure to re-house people who bought properties some years ago, and now lost them over the cliff edge!. The Caravan site owners are moving row after row of Statics back each year. There are some here that are within 6 feet of the cliff edge. And will have to be moved before Easter for safety sake.
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Like this:

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

Life on Yorkshire's cliffedge as coastal erosion threatens homes

Every morning before she puts the kettle on Chey Kenyon looks to see if her garden fence is still there.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
 
'Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.'

The gospel according to Wikipedia maybe there is something in it

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Nanniemate said:
'Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock. Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand. The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.'

The gospel according to Wikipedia maybe there is something in it
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Was it not Jay-Z 2002?
 
My mate Mathew...….
 
busby said:
Was happening centuries ago before Industrial revolution and pollution from motor cars etc etc.BUSBY.
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I imagine folk living in Derbyshire can be fairly complacent (until all the displaced people from coastal homes start to camp on their driveway). :winky:

Gordon
 
A few years ago there was a lovely house at the edge of Corton in Suffolk whose back fence was about 100 metres from the cliff edge. It was put up for sale but the last time I saw it, the cliff was at the fence and the house was not sold (about 2 years ago). we had a static caravan nearby but insurance companies would not cover any van within 200 metres of the cliff. Scary stuff and sad for the people in the villages.

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Rapido925M said:
I imagine folk living in Derbyshire can be fairly complacent (until all the displaced people from coastal homes start to camp on their driveway). :winky:

Gordon
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Not being complacent just stating a fact and as we have plenty of space in Derbyshire displaced people would be most welcome.BUSBY.
 
PeteH said:
In our bit of East Yorkshire, the issue is not flooding of low lying property as much as the loss of Land. we are losing the Cliffs to the sea at an alarming rate and have been since well before WW2. ALL of the WW2 coastal defence bunkers we played in as kids have long gone. One of the last is now only visble at low tide when I walked the dog Sunday. ERCC, have been under pressure to re-house people who bought properties some years ago, and now lost them over the cliff edge!. The Caravan site owners are moving row after row of Statics back each year. There are some here that are within 6 feet of the cliff edge. And will have to be moved before Easter for safety sake.

EDIT:- https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/new...ost-villages-forgotten-east-yorkshire-3751313
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5 miles plus since Roman times, imagine that in land area.
 
Before Van I looked at a cliff top chalet 20 year lease ridiculously expensive and the leaseholder would not buy back simply because they didn't expect it to be there that long. the only good thing was the leaseholder was very honest about the situation (but they were not selling the chalet) last time i looked it was still there and still for sale
 
I can remember back in the 50s in Boscombe near Bournmouth the cliffs slowly eroding over a few years and quite a few lovely houses collapsing into the sea.BUSBY.

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pappajohn said:
Wierdo.... She be calling on King Canute next.
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She`ll be from West Yorkshire then?. Lot`s migrated for our "Milk and Honey". And to get away from the "godless hordes".

Loss of land had been recorded from before the time of Henry 8th. so bugger all to do with "Man-made Global Warming"
 
Here in Cornwall, tiz only a problem in a small number of places. I'll stick my neck out and say the majority of the coastline is rock.
In Falmouth, the business area, which was built on reclaimed land, the Sea Defences, (the wall around the Harbour) was built in such a way, it allows the sea to penetrate it.
When it was built, the local Aristo shipped in Dutch workers to build it, actually built a village to accommodate them (Flushing). Still there after 2-3 hundred years, and still working .
 
I remember years ago being parked in the car park at Praa Sands over New Year.

About 3am, when the waves were coming over the top of our van (15m above the beach), I thought it a good time to move :)

The next night where we were parked fell into the sea.
 
We had a friend who bought an ex coastguard cottage in Norfolk years 40 ago on the cheap it was impossible to get a mortgage on it and as a professor of civil engineering he thought it was a good bet as a getaway cottage on the cheap its still there!
Yes there has been errosion for years but there is flooding now on low lying areas that have been unaffected for years.

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Handy as I only have the fruit farm field opposite me then Chichester Harbour,
Could moor my boat up alongside the house,
This global warming had better hurry up??
 
Thank gawd I am well inland in the foothills of the Pennines at nearly 350 feet above sea level if we flood most of the UK will be under water. On a serious note it is an alarming future as global warming and sea levels rise. I fear for our children and their kids, a sobering thought.
 
PeteH said:
Large Tracts of Holland are several metres below sea level?. In the UK it`s usual issue, we dont invest in infrastructure proper, just expensive "toy" projects to keep the "Fat Cats" in new BMW`s.
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Yep, but forward thinking these bankers.

Docklands going to be the new Venice (y)

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