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’.