Simon Measures News Today

Campaigners have condemned the government for either late or no replies to letters asking for sea defences in Hemsby.

Fears have been raised as more high tides are expected to cause damage to homes and services in Hemsby.

According to a survey from One Home using government data, 21 villages and hamlets in England will lose more than half a billion pounds worth of residential property to coastal erosion by 2100.

Thanks to coastal erosion, the three-bed room home Cristie Morris has owned for 24 years in Hemsby on the Norfolk coast is about to fall into the sea. Best-case scenario, it will remain until winter.

It was the night of 24 November 2023. The first thing he heard, as he lay rigid with anxiety in his seaside home in Norfolk, was a ‘ringing sound’ that he worked out was a section of the concrete road between his house and the cliff edge being snapped off – followed by ‘an extraordinary sound like a schluuuup’.

Ever more houses are being washed away as a result of erosion – but are stronger defences the answer and what can the homeowners do?

According to a statement from Save Hemsby Coastline, nearly 17,000 people signed the petition, which was handed in at 10 Downing Street on the morning of

The campaigners are asking the government to change the criteria around how funding is allocated for sea defences.

Erosion campaigners from Hemsby have delivered a petition with more than 20,000 signatures to the Prime Minister.

A dune protecting a car park vital to Hemsbys holiday economy has started to collapse into the sea. People in the area have shared their concerns.