HOMEOWNERS have told how their homes are set to fall off a cliff after a huge landslip.
The neighbours moved their houses away from the cliff edge twice before, but are now leaving the buildings to their fate.
The properties are now visible from the beach where debris, including tyres, had tumbled below after the giant slip.
North Norfolk District Council said it has been in touch with the owners of both properties in Trimingham since the cliff fall last week.
Erosion has become a very 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, Mr Martin said: “The overwhelming feeling amongst the neighbours is one of despair.”
There is no point in worrying about it because there is nothing we can do
Sarah Cameron
This time the home has been left perilously close to the edge, with no sign of another move.
In January 2020, the cliff fell at Trimingham overnight, sending 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.
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: “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.”
Chunks of the cliff have also fallen to the ground earlier this year, in February, when a 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 Eastern Daily Press.
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.
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.”
