Would you live in a house clinging to a cliff?

[TomandJerry]

Well?

I wouldn't!

 

[Bobby's Gull]

Pretty cool when there's raging thunderstorm going on though ...!

 

[Algernon]

Errrrrrrrrrrrr let me think? No flipping way!
I hope those supports are sunk in about a half mile.
Photoshopped or real?

 

[Paris]

Not 'arf! That would give me the right horn.

 

[TomandJerry]

Errrrrrrrrrrrr let me think? No flipping way!
I hope those supports are sunk in about a half mile.
Photoshopped or real?

"It might look precarious - and a hostage to coastal erosion - but there's no reason why the design shouldn't be structurally sound, says Maxwell Hutchinson, a former president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Cantilever beams drilled into the rock could support the building just as crampons support a climber"

 

[Juan Albion]

Errrrrrrrrrrrr let me think? No flipping way!
I hope those supports are sunk in about a half mile.
Photoshopped or real?

Photoshopped. It's only a concept.

 

[beorhthelm]

i'd be more worried about the car tbf.

 

[del strangefish]

Albania 1 Wales 2

 

[Return of the Rev]

Imagine not having to wash net curtains
Oh i forgot about window cleaning would it still be a tenner for the front of the house

 

[The Truth]

Can you imagine stumbling home from the pub to that!

*Splash*

 

[Ceej]

Not in one drilled in to the crumbliest, flakiest cliff.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Does seem a little extreme, but seems people like the idea of it…

 

[Codner pharmaceuticals]

I think this is [MENTION=1320]Notters[/MENTION] new place

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The people on Grand Designs last week built their new house only a few feet from a cliff edge. The local council said they wouldn't install sea defences as it wasn't cost effective to do so (probably quite correctly).

The couple planted a few weeds on the cliff face to try and offer some protection against erosion, but ultimately they reckoned the place probably had fifty to sixty years before the sea would claim it.

They'll both be dead by then so I don't suppose it'll affect them too much, but it seemed a slight shame to burn all that money on such a short term project.

 

[drew]

The people on Grand Designs last week built their new house only a few feet from a cliff edge. The local council said they wouldn't install sea defences as it wasn't cost effective to do so (probably quite correctly).

The couple planted a few weeds on the cliff face to try and offer some protection against erosion, but ultimately they reckoned the place probably had fifty to sixty years before the sea would claim it.

They'll both be dead by then so I don't suppose it'll affect them too much, but it seemed a slight shame to burn all that money on such a short term project.

Saw that as well. Think they were originally estimating about 60 years then they had the violent storms of last winter which took out about 10 years worth of erosion overnight. A few more like that!!!!

 

[halbpro]

The people on Grand Designs last week built their new house only a few feet from a cliff edge. The local council said they wouldn't install sea defences as it wasn't cost effective to do so (probably quite correctly).

The couple planted a few weeds on the cliff face to try and offer some protection against erosion, but ultimately they reckoned the place probably had fifty to sixty years before the sea would claim it.

They'll both be dead by then so I don't suppose it'll affect them too much, but it seemed a slight shame to burn all that money on such a short term project.

Weren't they eventually told that they could get away replacing any eroded cliff face with the same substance, so basically they can dig up the surrounding countryside to dump it onto the cliff and reinforce it? That seemed like it'd make it last longer.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Weren't they eventually told that they could get away replacing any eroded cliff face with the same substance, so basically they can dig up the surrounding countryside to dump it onto the cliff and reinforce it? That seemed like it'd make it last longer.

Yep, but I think they still only thought they'd get another ten years max out of it.

 

[nipponseagull]

Bloody awesome until the cliff face drops off killing all inside !!

 

[Bold Seagull]

The people on Grand Designs last week built their new house only a few feet from a cliff edge. The local council said they wouldn't install sea defences as it wasn't cost effective to do so (probably quite correctly).

The couple planted a few weeds on the cliff face to try and offer some protection against erosion, but ultimately they reckoned the place probably had fifty to sixty years before the sea would claim it.

They'll both be dead by then so I don't suppose it'll affect them too much, but it seemed a slight shame to burn all that money on such a short term project.

Was the cliff the most worrying thing, or their apparent enjoyment of knowing all the walkers along the cliff path could see straight into their en-suite shower!?

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Might have clung on to him years ago, but now I live elsewhere