ON THE EDGE
Our homes are about to fall off a CLIFF and into sea after huge landslip – we moved twice but have now accepted defeat
But one neighbour explained why - even with the risk - they won't be moving any time soon
HOMEOWNERS have told how their properties are set to fall off a cliff following a huge landslip.
Cliffside residents in Trimingham, Norfolk, have moved their houses away from the cliff edge twice before - but are now leaving the buildings to their fate.
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A large slip last week has left two homes hanging perilously over the cliff edge.
Photos show the home at Cliff Farm with one corner dangling over the 80ft drop to the beach below.
Debris, including tyres, have also tumbled below and now litter the beach.
North Norfolk District Council said it has been in touch with the owners of both properties in Trimingham since the most recent cliff fall.
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Erosion has become a common sight on the Norfolk coast with several homes also being lost in Hemsby in recent years.
Ex-soldier Lance Martin had to drag his Hemsby home away from a cliff edge twice to stop it falling into the sea before admitting defeat last November.
Speaking last year, Martin said: “The overwhelming feeling amongst the neighbours is one of despair.”
This time the home has been left perilously close to the edge, with no sign of another move.
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In January 2020, the cliff fell at Trimingham overnight, .
That fall sent tonnes of sand and silt plummeting onto the beach from the Trimingham House Caravan Park above.
And in 2021, residents of a Norfolk seaside village - Mundesley - were left teetering on the edge of a cliff after a landslide the "size of a football pitch" plunged into the sea.
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Hundreds of tons of sand and soil slipped away from the 130ft high cliffs and crashed onto the beach.
The fall, which followed ten days of heavy rain in the area, trimmed around 4ft away from the end of the clifftop garden of an Edwardian house converted into five flats.
But tenants living inside are refusing to panic - and insist they will carry on living in the same spot.
Sarah Cameron, 54, who lives in a ground floor flat, said she wasn't going to leave her home.
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She said: “This is a lovely place to live and I am going to stay here 100%. These cliff falls happen and we expect them.
“We know the properties here are going to succumb to the elements at some point, but I don’t think it is going to happen for some time yet.
“There is no point in worrying about it because there is nothing we can do.”
In February, part of a cliff crumbled in Sidestrand.
When it happened, it prompted North Norfolk district council to warn that it had been caused by relentless wet weather, reports
There is no point in worrying about it because there is nothing we can do
Sarah Cameron
And, concerns over a potential cliff collapse at Trimingham had even led the Ministry of Defence to move the distinctive 'golf ball' radar station
A replacement facility was built eight miles from the coast at RAF Neatishead, near Hoveton - the site of a former major radar base.
FIVE SEASIDE HOMES DESTROYED
In December 2023, the destruction of a set of seaside homes took place after storms hammered the coastline where they'd sat untouched for decades.
The destruction of the five cottages began after they were left teetering on the edge of the cliff.
Footage and photos snapped at the time showed the homes - on what's known as The Marrams - being reduced to rubble.
Planks of wood and shattered glass could be seen being smashed by massive machines as the picturesque cottages were flattened.
And a week before it happened, Owners of waterfront Happisburgh homes lifted the lid on how they were now less than 50ft from the cliffs after disastrous weather battered the Norfolk coastline.
One terrified mum said: "We haven't even got into winter, but as we've lost that much, we could be forced to leave in springtime or even before Christmas.
"It's frightening."
THIS HOME COULD BE YOURS
The Sun wrote about Cliff Farm back in 2018 when it was on sale and several metres further from the cliff edge.
The home was on sale for £175,000 but potential buyers were going to have to stump up the cash without a mortgage because of the cliff's proximity.
At the time, the house sat 18ft from the edge of the cliff - with the property agent describing it as a "ticking timebomb".
Bryan Baxter, of property auctioneers Auction House, said: "It is a lovely cottage that has previously been valued at £400,000.
"The current owners have lived there permanently for 18 years and in that time the cliff edge hasn't gotten any closer.
"But further along the cliff there have been parts that have slipped away and some bungalows have been lost.
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"The time has come for the owners to move on."
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