Good quality field left looking for new owner. Any reasonable offer accepted.
I am reminded of a story from a National Trust hater from the west country about a farmer - or perhaps a golf course - which made a jolly good thing out of selling a new strip of land to the National Trust every few years so that they could pull their coastal path back a bit from the approaching cliff.
One of a number of striking images from a piece about coastal erosion in the Financial Times. This one captioned: England’s east coast is particularly at risk of erosion because it is made up of soft clay and sand © Christopher Furlong/Getty.
Reference 1: Britain’s disappearing coastline: ‘Right now we abandon people’: Swaths of UK coastline are eroding at an alarming rate. Yet the government lacks a coherent action plan, say critics - Camilla Hodgson - 2020. Financial Times, 10th August.
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