Britain's collapsing coastline | Times Reports
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- Coastal erosion is occurring along 17 per cent of the UK coastline. The worst affected is the town of Happisburgh in Norfolk, predicted to lose the most land over the next 20 years.
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My wife and I visited this very spot and parked in that car park in September 2017: it looks as if the cliff has receded a bit more since we were there - the car park wasn't quite as close as that to the cliff edge. It's very sad for Bryony, but coastal erosion is hardly a new phenomenon in Eastern England: the destruction of her house must have been reasonably foreseeable when she bought it.
Yes she knew full well the situation and was stupid to buy
@@truthandfreedom8145 Get over yerself. She's happy. Move along.
Typical local authorities, the bungalow is falling over the cliff, and she was told, " You have to have planning permission" fo do anything about it." I hope that bloody "jobs worth" is ashamed of himself.
Easy you can't buy a house if you cannot insure it and having enough money for permission and maintaining it.
My immediate thoughts. I would be complaining most bitterly to the authorities for not foreseeing what the householder could.
But you'll only push it bavk a bit further then need to move again !!
@@simonabbott7323 But why did she move there if she knew she was on the edge?? Not the LPA fault lol.
@@Blackmamba12345 When she moved there, it was a long way from the cliff edge.
I like how she moved to a new house barely 15 metres further inland, what a fool.
Maybe she moved it to the edge of the property she owned?
@@TheFreemanuk Hes right. Its beyond foolish. Judging by her apparent fears, I'd expect her to move WELL away from any coastline.
She's captain Ahab mad. She would trample all comers to reach her impossible idyll.
Amos Graim Another insensitive twat. All countries have properties on the edge of the water, look at the California coast, all those expensive houses and mansions, they will end up in the pacific.
@@SueLiz1946 Obama has a beach front property and the sea there has not risen in hundreds of years and is not likely to.
East Anglia (Norfolk/Suffolk) has always had coastal erosion. It's centuries old.
When they said "getting out of europe" they meant it
black joke!
Don't buy houses built on clay cliffs it's that simple if your 10 miles inland even then look at the erosion rates for the area. It's a natural threat and 1000s of old cities/towns and villages have been lost within the last 2000 years just in england alone
I guess you could say that if someone bought it in 2010 but realistically they probably thought it's not going to be that bad
My parent's former village is entirely under water now. The dam came well after the houses were built
The dam eventually burst, and that entire village got swept away
Why buy a house next to a corroding cliff not as if this just started happening
Maybe because they didn’t know it would erode so fast
Because some people like living on the edge..
@@jamesllewellyn5191😂
In the Netherlands we now operate "sand engines" in the sea. That is, we dump sand in the sea, in front of the coast. This creates an underwater sand bank. The currents will deposit the sand at the shores over time, working against erosion. Every few years we have to replenish the sand engine.
Yes this has been done with some success on the Mid Wales coastline.
It's obviously working and not extremely expensive. Seems also doable for the more densely inhibited places as the English Northsea coast. They also get a large nice beach in the process.
Anyone else notice her name was Nicola 'Bayless'? Seems pretty apt
To me a cliff is bedrock, not compacted sand.
There’s plenty of cliffs of either sand or chalk.
Same for me : this coast is only flat sand or mud dunes, and nothing else. No mechanical resistance to wind and water erosion.
Lay rocks or build a concrete wall on a sandbed as a protection is just a joke. Water will get through and under it in no time.
Developers dont care...planners seem unable to reject these plans...its still happening today when in reality the property owners may get 5-10 years before they are forced to me...horrific
@@pget8462 Not true. Cromer for example.
One of the saddest parts is that putting up more sea defences will just result in different areas of the coast being eroded, potentially with many more people than Happisburgh, so there really is nothing that can be done.
That's not right . Putting more sea walls in will lessen the effects of erosion not increase the chances of erosion anywhere else that has no sea wall except right at the ends of a wall if they are not terminated properly . One of the major problems is that some of the erosion is below the beach and under the cliff where the lime stone is dissolving and removing it's support . That will cause the sea walls to eventually sink and become ineffective at breaking up wave action . UK sits on a lot of limestone and it's dissolving continuously at the edges and sometimes even inland which causes sink holes . You can help control wave action were storms and heavy wave action will erode away soft coastlines , but you can't stop the dissolving rock problem .
The problem really for these people is that there are only a few of them, if this was an actual town there would be more incentive to try & cope with the problem. In the US they are packing the coasts with big rocks, special protective fabric on the sandy cliffs but only where there are many people - other cliffs with no population to speak of are simply gradually eroding away just like this area. It is nature's way after all, and we humans are the ones getting in the way ! In ancient times the people would simply move their flimsy homes further away & the problem would be solved. I don't suppose for a minute that all the folks living on the Dogger bank area in ancient times simply waited for the seas to inundate their little villages - they moved !
doesn't result in the Netherlands eroding id different areas. Or you could do what the humans and proto-humans have been doing for 2.6 million years. Move somewhere else.
This is what happens when you build your house upon the sand (Matthew 7:26-27, KJV). The same thing happened in Pacifica, California.
groynes are the only answer.
It`s Mother Nature and she will always try to take it back. Something as small as a weed can push apart heavy patio slabs. Leave it untouched and the slab will be lifted up and overgrown. Just Mother Nature my friends. Bless her.
Gets offered money to relocate due to dangers, refuses offer and then proceeds to say the authorities aren't helping.
Okay lady, enjoy cliff diving with your home.
Exactly.
I mean you're not wrong
Well yes but actually no
House fell into the ocean so bought another house just nearby. Insane!
I was thinking exactly the same thing. I lost my sympathy for her when I heard this.
@@SolarDragon1000 But remember she probably has limited funds, and she seems alone, so she likely doesn't care too much about anybody inheriting anything - and no doubt the people selling were happy to let it go for a pretty low price !
@@veronicaroach3667 Houses near the sea are probably a bit cheaper too, unless you're in Brighton
I spent my childhood in Happisburgh. I knew Bryony.
@Conspiracy Nut Jobs Are Mentally Ill !!! I am telling the truth. But I am not going to argue about it. Have a nice day :)
Why would she buy another house so close to the erosion when she’s already lost one house to the receding coast line? Makes no sense to me.
They installed proper costal protection and rip rap afterwards.
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It was obviously cheap and might last her out her life.
Did you just ignore the end of the video or something lol
It's just a matter of time until her second house will be washed away though. Mother nature is hard to stop.
@Conspiracy Nut Jobs Are Mentally Ill !!! she could probably move in for free as it has no value! 😂
Water always wins
@@johanna6050 Ain't that the truth.
She reminds me of the story of King Canute trying to hold back the tide , there are plenty of other places to live around the coast of Britain that are not in jeapody of disappearing over the edge I appreciate that she loves the village but we can't always have what we want in life .
King Canute didn't try to hold back the tide - he knew he would be unable to do so. He told the tide to go back and he and his courtiers got wet because he was showing his sycophantic followers (who thought and said he was almighty) that in fact he had no power over nature.
Cornwall
There is no story of King Canute trying to hold back the tide.
There may be plenty of other places, but it sounds as though she doesn't have the funds to move to those places.
You can still see the cottages on Google maps - images from 2009. Very sad, they looked lovely.
Visited happisburgh multiple times. It's a lovely place but year by year more of it slips away. There used to be a caravan and campsite park in front of the church but it's all closed now. Real shame
Sadly the forces the nature can care less about that.
What you see on Google Maps has nearly all gone. I was there just 4 days ago. There are now only 2 buildings on the left, beyond the road junction.
I visited in 2010 too. I reckon 40-50 metres of road and at least 8-9 buildings have been swallowed up in that time.
Good luck to the folks living there, I’m also coastal but more inland and on rock.🙏
By definition, cliff is made of rock.
I visited overstrand for 1st time last week, parked above the area with all the hills going down. Superb beach and stones, cliffs are amazing. Sorry to hear about your house and hope you are financially better off now than you were. You have my support in cliff defenses, where I live in Gorleston there are no plans to maintain all the horizontal groins that run up to Hopton; then start again at Corton. Think that is a battle we may find hard to win as forces of nature are way more powerful than us. May you live to over 100 and keep this story alive. Winterton have a similar event in their history in the 1700s I think, a huge bit of cliff fell and it never looked the same, it took out the local windmill; all 'findable' with a youtube search. Found some truly amazing fossils among rocks whilst there, hence me watching video initially :)
There is all the plastic in the country that is been put into landfills ,why not use it for helping to stop sea erotion you could make into plastic piles and knock them into the ground then back fill with building rubble etc ,If you made the factory at the side of a power station or were heat is produced the piles could be made more cheaply and more and carbon friendly. Just a thought.
Some reports say the East Riding Of Yorkshire and Holderness coastline is the fastest eroding in Europe. Some reports say more than 30 metres are being lost a year in some localised areas.
very very sad ,,, but the people should of took a bit more notice of where the Lighthouse was built .
Guess what ! coast lines erode, always have, always will ! Don’t buy a house close to a cliff edge, she was warned and ignored the advice. Zero pity.
@@fred8696 do you think people less educated than yourself ought not to have a voice? Shame on you...
@@fred8696 Libraries
I'd say a building that has stood almost 300 years is doing pretty good.
@@kattypatty8581 You can roller them back a good few hundred metres
Its cheaper to buy their houses then making a barrier
its a good idea in away as there's better things going on in this world and there's no point fighting every battle nature throws at us.
Choose to live in certain places you have to accept the risks. The coast, near an earthquake fault, near a volcano, in tornado alley or any place there are risks. That’s life on a living planet.
When I was at school 60 years ago we were told the British isles were subsiding into the east coast and rising on the west coast about 1/2 inch per year that's why the east coast is eroding.
Wrong. In the North East of England the land is actually rising out of the sea. The effect is from the retreating of the ice sheet from the last Ice Age. The ice was 1km thick and the weight over centuries effectively pushed the land into the Earths crust - now that the weight of the ice is gone the land is rising.
I cannot say that for the Norfolk area (desperately trying to find what 'land tilt' is that's mentioned here and getting nowhere)
In other words, the land of the UK is moving in many directions and not simply from one side to the other.
So she refused compensation ,well tough .
The East coast has been eroding for years government put a few boulders down, not good enough only going to get worse.
It’s been eroding for about eight hundred million years
They could learn from the dutch
The 1953 Dutch?@@paulrimmer5824
My school recommended this tobus, good job!
I really feel for these people but what defence is there against mother nature?
Don"t build there its the building that are changing the wind patterns hence the wave patterns
Ask the Walloons. East Anglia drainage ditches.
There is nothing new about this phenomenon. Coastal erosion has been going on for thousands of years. What's difficult to understand is why people buy these properties and somehow hope that their property will be spared.
Millions of years!
Nice images, thank you!
lesson 1 don't get a house near the sea or known flood areas
Make sure the rock is solid
Sea levels aren't rising. Great Britain is tilting down in the East and up in the west. That's why the steps in Harlech Castle lead down to the sea hundreds of years ago, but are now half a mile from the sea.
Interesting.
@luminous life i live on a hill i'll be fine.
yeah tbh. lol
Not really true. Borth, only a few miles away from Harlech has had extensive sea defences constructed in the last 10 years.
Poor woman! This is just part of the natural order of things and there's no way we can hold back the sea. Take a look at some of the work that's been done in the Netherlands to see what's involved and maybe it will help you come to terms with your loss.
Netherlands has never held back the sea.
check.
I've never understood how placing boulders solves the problem. The rocks break some of the waves yes but it washes soil right through and doesn't stop the erosion. The boulders make great breakwaters for marinas yes but there the object is not to save the coastline but to protect boats. The unfortunate woman shown in the video is on the wrong path and doesn't understand there is no point in discussing saving the coastline. She will probably spend out here life fearing the sea every day and waiting for it to take her home unless she is sensible and buys property to live on some miles back from where she's buying and just visits the sea.
simple dont live near the sea wen this happens simple
Not simple at all
Much like your writing and ideas.
@Digital Electronic Creative Is this the best you can do? At least i corrected a typo! Thank you for confirming my idea about you. (haha)
This is my area, sadly there is not much you can do. The cliffs are soft sand and mud all the way along this stretch. We haven't got much in the way of rock or stone other than flints here, and there isnt enough of a population for the government to step in.
Here in the US, there are concerns about people who continue to lose their homes because they live in a flood plain--and then rebuild in the same place. In California, people continue to encroach into forest areas and lose their homes to wildfires. It's sad to see the destruction and loss. I chose to live in an area that is relatively safe from cataclysmic events, but I know that's not possible for everyone.
Same in Australia we're getting massive floods and people just keep building in that area. they need to leave, it's obvious human beings are not intelligent enough to deal with climate change so we just have to adapt
@@jamien4561 No, you are no 'intelligent enough' to know CC is a fraud. You are speaking about weather. Floods are no worse than in the recorded and documented past. Fact.
Comments about "don't live there then!" is bit unfair when a majority will pay top price (AND highest taxes) for a legal ocean/waterfront property on a good day!
So, does that mean you are so stupid to decide where it is safe to live, depends on not on the safety of the environment but on the price of said property. To me that is ludicrous, but hey, I'm not the one drowning. Bloody idiots, the lot of you.
@@Paul_C yeah the accents make me sick in this video.
They made the choice, didn't they! Rest of us shouldn't have help pay for it!
Better get the Dutch to workout a plan for all this! Simples
This is stunning!
This is Erosion and not rising sea levels !
No one is saying it isn't...
Possible that rising sea levels are increasing the erosion rate, though?
Such a beautiful old house. A shame they didn't try to save it.
Or dismantle and build elsewhere as there are probably regional style buildings on the east coast
These stories are all very sad but this has been happening for the whole of my long life. At school in Norfolk in the sixties we were taught the land tilt was 1/8 inch per year so In My lifetime the beach has sunk 91/2 inches. This is so along the Norfolk coast I.e. 1 foot per hundred years. Every 8 or 9 years a newcomer commences a campaign to create sea walls and gate the Norfolk Broads. In cannot happen because there is not enough money. The walls would have to cross the Wash and extend to protect Lincolnshire as well! To allow for North Sea surge and land tilt together with tide variations you would require a wall height of between 6 to 8 feet. This would require concrete which requires cement. Cement is made by a heat process of about 1300 degrees so you would need a complete wind farm to create this plus the extraction of aggregate and the transport of materials for dozens of years. It is not physically or financially viable. Nature and the result of the last ice age are against it.
I keep thinking about how Manhattan Island is only eight feet or so above sea level as it is.
@@JustMe-vk4fn Bangkok is 1.5 meters below they are fine ))
Pretty ironic that the lady's last name is "Bayless".
Coastlines have been eroding since the earth was born.. They also extend...people still seem to be shocked by these natural occurrences. Yet they still want to live on shifting earth.
for those wishing for a idyllic coastal home with sea veiws on east coast BEWARE , better to rent , east coast lives matter !
prolonged wind erosion as well as crumbling cliffs is not a magnet for coastal living
Works out roughly the same..... Sea reclaims... Land reclaims
5:59 Perhaps that will happen at the same time? If you catch my drift.
Heartbreaking just Heartbreaking :( :(
My wandering soul, how it aimlessly dwells Among darkened hills, amidst its unseen spells, And in the distance all that I hear: the summoning of bells. Far above me, the high boughs they are bending, The once hidden moon now slowly ascending And as it sings to the world its sleep song, I sit in its shadow and await my ending.
Beautiful.
I left my ending there, and now await mine in sunny Gran Canaria.
Just looked at the google maps and it looks like the erosion has not moved much since 4 years ago (well not sure how old are the google maps of that area)..
goes living there in 2010... like if we only knew by then what was happening over there...
If dubai can make an island or 50 in the middle of the sea im sure the uk can build something to stop it
It didn’t make sense , did the lady say she refused compensation yet she was saying she had no money and she had also moved into another house..? Why would you say no to help..?
So Sad for these people 🙏🙏
Been there before,It had loads more land when I went there,It sometime back in the 1990's this Happisburgh in Norfolk,Bit further from Cromer,All that land also been well washed out in the sea,We are loosing land now days,Should see the latest of Ice caps in the south pole,Looking rather slushy and melty,We need to start building walls around edge of coast lines,That solve some problems also create more Jobs for people
I wonder if driving pealing down would help
Cliffs fall into the sea. That's what cliffs do! The only variation depends on the toughness of the rock.
Britains collapsing coast line it's the same as Britains collapsing culture.
If you have no money! Do not buy a house in a cliff lol
The pile of rocks along the beach is probably the best option and the most natural defence. Expecting Government to bail out property owners who choose to live in such areas is a bit rich.
Talk to the Netherlands.
Coastal erosion is enevitable and so is long shore drift they cannot be stopped just moved, this kinda thing happens when you buy coastal homes im afraid
We are melting.
So sad.
In the United States, in addition to sea levels and filling of coastal wetlands, we have the problem of competing municipalities building sea walls, levees, jetties, etc etc to redirect sea water for various purposes. Sucks to the one who has to receive the water, I guess.
flood defences damage eco systems that water has to go some where thats why marsh lands and flood plains exist
move somewhere else. top of a mountain or the bottom of the sea, I really could care less. just stop complaining about something which has been changing since creation began. Unless you can convince the Chinese and Indians to please return to the pre-industrial levels that South Asia enjoyed in 1700.
Very, Sad.
I had the same thing happen on Lake Ontario. Government wouldn't give me any permits so I told them I was calling the TV and newspapers. I got the permits
Why would anyone buy a house so close to the cliffs? Just a little bit of due diligence would tell you this is a bad idea.
What is wrong with people wanting to save bricks and mortar. Moving a church and a lighthouse. Demolish the buildings and re home somewhere else. That whole area with be gone in a few decades and there is nothing you can do about it. Face facts that you live in a world you can't control. The quicker you understand that the better.
Move the lighthouse on rollers
the rock she's living on literally is silt left by the glaciers - land that wasn't there before and will obviously be worn down and washed away.
sea defences just cause more problems - you cannot protect yourself from the sea.
it be like that yunno
The sun rises and sets every day. Coastlines have been eroding since the dawn of time. Both are unstoppable.
She must have been aware of the coastal erosion problem when she bought the property back in 2010? I don't understand why she wouldn't also take money to help offset the loss/ move the property, instead of getting absolutely nothing.
Sorry to say but she seems to be living in denial?
All over the world there are reports of coastlines collapsing within one mile of each you find a new building of over 15 foot high that changes the wind patterns
Stop spending money on things you don't need eg Skyscrapers in london and spend it on things you do need. Its not difficult but politicians just don't get it!
Your stupidity is incomprehensible
I love the ocean but I dont need to live at the edge because i have a brain.
The coast is collapsing just as it has for thousands of years.
Dredge a bunch of sand from the ocean and place it on the shore, is the only way to slow the erosion. It won’t be a one time fix but more of a every few year nourishment project. There’s definitely equipment and money to do the job, we just need the young men to get out there and work.
2 years later and predictions are true. Britain no longer has a coastline. It's completely disappeared.
When you live by the oceans, you should expect to be swept out to sea...
Las casas tan cerca del mar son un peligro
They should start a go fund me for some concrete sea breakers stack them up around there will save it
Curved walls might be more effective put the wave back out against itself.
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@@ShipsoftheOceans And then the water will go around the barrier and impact somewhere else. Man has to move aside against the forces of nature.
@@OtDawn That's it would go some were else and probably in a place the least expected. They would be spitting the dummies if it was their own place.
Now we know what happened to the Dogger bank.
This is happeningin the US as well, Pacifica CA with the Pacific Ocean and in AShtabulah, OH on Lake Erie. I went to a freinds place on a cliffs of Lake Erie. She is loosing her home. It shoudl be gone in the next 4 to 5 years they believe.
We need to create more land on the east coast.
Use waste from mining and concrete plus God tier sea defences
SO INTERESTING !!!!
Citizens are asking for the impossible to happen. You better take your compensation and move on.
@Conspiracy Nut Jobs Are Mentally Ill !!! Agreed.
3:01 PET GOOSE
Is the sea full.with sewerage so it's waves are balancing elements seeking say the soils underneath the cliffs to stop the unbalanced Sea
Build too close coastline and build in high flood area....
POV: you have to watch this in geography class
UK is crumbling away in every way sad🥵
It's sad people losing their houses and all, but it's ignorant to be blaming the council for not doing enough. you could never hold back the immense power of the sea. Coastal erosion is inevitable, probably a good idea not to buy a house right by the coast in the first place.
When they were living there the waves weren’t as close and some people can’t predict how cliffs will erode
1999 governments strategic withdrawal from the coast was published. Using the word "strategic" you'd think some planning was behind this? Nop just bill any homeowner to demolish their home before the sea takes it.
ABC 123, Primary colours; The wise man built his house upon the stone. The foolish man built his house upon the sand. Hot hot burny burny. Elementary stuff. Some idiots bought houses near rivers too. Then the rains came tumbling down.