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« on: February 09, 2011, 20:10:29 »
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355185/Luxury-mansion-1-METRE-cliff-edge-Dawlish-south-Devon-landslides.html

Look at the second picture - you can just see the back end of a Pacer entering the tunnel - the landslip also looks very undercut (rail replacement bus anyone ?)
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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2011, 20:18:39 »
That's what you get for living on a sandstone headland...
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« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2011, 20:21:18 »
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It is thought the falls may be due to normal coastal erosion caused by factors like the sea undercutting the cliff base.

You don't say??  Shocked Roll Eyes
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« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2011, 20:42:31 »
Quote from: chrisoates on February 09, 2011, 20:10:29
Look at the second picture - you can just see the back end of a Pacer entering the tunnel - the landslip also looks very undercut (rail replacement bus anyone ?)

Apologies for pedantry, but it's the front end of an HST▸ (High Speed Train) Wink

I'm slightly amazed though that anyone could pay GBP1.75m for a house that had already lost its garden over the edge of a cliff in 2007. You'd hope the surveyor spotted the imminent danger of the whole job sliding into the sea...
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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2011, 20:45:33 »
See that little house in the far left of that same photo?

That's my cousin's house, that is. Stayed there only a few weeks ago Smiley
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« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2011, 21:03:58 »
Quote from: inspector_blakey on February 09, 2011, 20:42:31
I'm slightly amazed though that anyone could pay GBP1.75m for a house that had already lost its garden over the edge of a cliff in 2007. You'd hope the surveyor spotted the imminent danger of the whole job sliding into the sea...

Ah ... the ill-fated Home Information Packs ...  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2011, 08:54:17 »

    ''Salvage: The owner is getting civil engineers to examine the cliffs in a bid to save her home.''

     A bit of under- pining perhaps !!!!
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« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2011, 11:43:00 »
Interesting that this house is less than 10 years old...
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« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2011, 12:38:49 »
Useless journalism - "the earlier landslip was described as the length of two double decker buses".   

Surely eny fule kno that the correct units for volume should be 'Olympic sized swimming pools'?

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« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2011, 13:51:33 »
I thought the standard measurement of volume was yer Royal Albert Hall. Or is that the old imperial version?
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« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2011, 15:17:12 »
Fortunately for the property owner (not to mention residents of Devon), the landslip did not bring an area the size of Wales crashing down into the sea.
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« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2011, 16:17:24 »
Quote from: Phil on February 09, 2011, 20:45:33
See that little house in the far left of that same photo?

That's my cousin's house, that is. Stayed there only a few weeks ago Smiley



You must be the first person to spot something to the "far left" in the Mail
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« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2011, 19:56:07 »
 Grin  Grin  Grin you got me there - nice one!!
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« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2011, 23:58:56 »
A video news report, from the BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page):

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Sea view moves closer for Devon house

The owners of a luxury cliff top home in Dawlish, Devon are counting the cost after a landslip caused large parts of the garden to crash around 130 ft into the sea.

The house, bought less than two years ago for ^1.75m, is now perilously close to the cliff edge.
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« Reply #14 on: February 11, 2011, 18:54:45 »
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A video news report, from the BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page):

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Sea view moves closer for Devon house

The owners of a luxury cliff top home in Dawlish, Devon are counting the cost after a landslip caused large parts of the garden to crash around 130 ft into the sea.

The house, bought less than two years ago for ^1.75m, is now perilously close to the cliff edge.

I predict a 'steep fall' coming!
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