In England, families are forced to leave their homes due to crumbling rocks (9 photos + 1 video)

East Yorkshire residents forced to leave their homes and move away from the coast - and all this without any help from authorities. Experts predict that by the end of the century will collapse into the sea property with a total value of £600 million, and homeowners along the coast of Holderness will be among the first victims. However, Yorkshiremen claim that the authorities did not offer them a penny for old houses or building new ones.





Residents of the unstable Coast of Holderness are entitled to participating in a municipal program called "Kickback" to move property away from the crumbling coastline. But those who filed application for "Kickback" the villagers of Tunstall, claim that in this there are so many pitfalls in the process that it can turn into a battle that will last for years.



According to a study by the anti- climate change One Home. damage to houses during the next 20 years, is estimated at £584 million.

Derek Dunn, 62, personally experienced this scourge when three years ago, a three-bedroom brick bungalow, which he now late wife occupied for 15 years, collapsed into the sea. He wanted to build a new £100,000 bungalow in a meadow, bought by his late father away from the rocks.

“Many people think that the council or the government helps when something like that happens, but it’s not like that,” says Dunn. - I even had to pay double council tax even though I showed the official his old house, and he said that it was abandoned. There were even flood protection. It was beyond a joke. Council offered me only public housing in an apartment complex two miles from here. I live here since childhood, so why should I live somewhere else?”

Since the meadow was agricultural land, it took six years to get a building permit. New bungalow also had to be built of wood so that it could be easily later demolish.





Derek lives just around the corner from his 81-year-old mother Maureen Dunn, whose house is now riddled with damp due to structural defects, caused by the destruction of rocks. The family plans to eventually build another wooden bungalow for Maureen, who lost her husband for three years back, could move there.

“I have no idea how long I've been here,” she says. — It all depends on the weather and coastal erosion. We lost a few yards land when the Beast came from the East [the nickname of the anticyclone "Hartmut"]. When we first moved here, there was a whole field between us and the sea. We We thought we'd be here all our lives. I don't want to leave here. I'm here too long - 52 years. When we bought the meadow, we didn't even think that we have to build on it. The house is damp through and through, but I can't do anything do with cracks because it would be just a waste of money. My late husband tried to install breakwaters to fix the sand and hold the rock, but there's nothing you can do about it. My son and daughter are already moved out after they lost their homes, and I'm leaving next. In July they will start building my bungalow.”






Another Holderness resident, Annette Richards, also reached out to “Kickback” for the construction of a bungalow, which I paid in full with nurse's salary.

“This is my home, not a country cottage,” she says. - I was four years when my parents moved here. I could easily move into public housing and pay rent, but why should I do this if my old house has already been paid for.”

She bought her house for £40,000 and lived there 14 years old. She also pays double council tax and her old house attached to her mother's house, so it cannot be demolished until she will move out. She thought about finding a tenant to cover council tax and other bills until both her house and her mother's house will be demolished.



Keith Naylor, a mechanical engineer, lives by a road that once walked along the cliffs, but now collapsed into the sea. The road is currently blocked even for ambulances. He stated that he and his neighbors felt abandoned» authorities.

“Since I have been here, three houses have been demolished,” says Naylor. You don't get any help from anyone. No compensation, and insurance is also impossible to count on something. In Hornsey and the Weathernsey have built coastal fortifications, but it is too late.”






“Destruction is coming and will continue. I live here more 20 years, the last five years continuously. This is a good place to live. I I want to spend the rest of my days here. But you see the cliff's state this moment. Every year it gets worse and there's nothing here done in relation to water protection. The houses of three of my neighbors were demolished, and the fourth is teetering on the edge."