Cottage left teetering on cliff edge following massive landslip

A location has been near teetering connected the brink of a 400ft driblet pursuing a monolithic cliff autumn on the Jurassic Coast.

The thatched cottage is present conscionable 40ft distant from the borderline of the unstable Sidmouth cliffs successful Devon.

It follows the illness past play of a immense information of the cliff astatine Jacob’s Ladder Beach betwixt Sidmouth and Ladram Bay, wherever tonnes of debris came crashing down, prompting the section authorization to adjacent the fashionable South West coastal way for information reasons.

This successful crook caused a smaller rockfall straight beneath the thatched property, bringing it perilously adjacent to the borderline of the 400ft drop.

Drone footage of the 185 million-year aged sandstone cliffs showed the magnitude of the landslip – and the hazard it poses to some homeowners and members of the nationalist venturing onto the beach.

“Following a cliff autumn astatine Jacob’s Ladder Beach successful Sidmouth, we’d similar to punctual visitors to support their region from cliffs on the East Devon coastline,” East Devon District Council warned successful a societal media post.

“Cliff falls are a earthy and unpredictable occurrence on the East Devon coast.

“This is due to the fact that the stone from which the cliffs are formed is soft, and truthful prone to stone falls, and landslides, which tin hap astatine immoderate time.”

Following a akin illness astatine the aforesaid determination past year, coastal idiosyncratic Vicky Walkley had warned that cliff falls were “very difficult” to predict, and could beryllium contributed to by some dense rainfall and lukewarm sunshine.

There was different cliff illness successful Sidmouth successful August 2022 which came aft blistery upwind cracked the earth.

In March 2020, ample chunks of the Sidmouth cliffs gave mode successful 2 abstracted collapses, sending rocks and soil tumbling down to the beach, conscionable yards distant from wherever radical were stood.

The East Devon District Council reminded visitors to “stay good clear” of the cliffs erstwhile walking connected the beach, with Coastguard advising that formation users enactment a region equivalent to the heigh of the cliff betwixt them and the cliff base.