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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Environment
Gaia Lamperti

What will be the future of the Thames Estuary settlements?

A landscape view of groynes and rock armour on the Eastchurch beach on the Isle of Sheppey in the United Kingdom, where last year the government announced a record $6.2bn investment in flood and coastal defences [Gaia Lamperti/Al Jazeera]

Malcolm Newell has lived in his sea-view home in Eastchurch, Kent for more than 20 years and dreams of his seven grandchildren taking it on after him. But with the speeding rate of the cliff’s erosion, that may not be the case.

After a sudden landslide in 2020 that caused the neighbouring family of six to lose their home to the sea, Newell’s property is now the next one standing on the cliff and the most exposed to the North Sea’s tides.

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