Residents living in towns and villages on the British coast may have to move due to the rising sea, the Environment Agency’s director general is expected to say today.
Coastal erosion is leading to the loss of homes in the UK, especially in Norfolk and Suffolk.
In a speech at a conference on flooding and coastal erosion, Sir James Bevan will say that an “uncomfortable truth” is that some British communities “cannot stay where they are”.
Happisburgh residents stand firm in the face of coastal erosion
“There is no return for land that coastal erosion has taken away or that sea level rise has put under water permanently or frequently,” he will say. “This means that in some places the right answer will be needed, in economic, strategic and human terms