This is the formerly popular seaside tourist spot that has been reduced to a ghost town. Skipsea in East Yorkshire is now filled with abandoned homes and shacks which are falling into the sea.
Devastating erosion at the seaside location means buildings are running the risk of falling onto the crashing waves along the North Sea coast, Yorkshire Live reports.
The remaining residents of the fraught town are worried about the future as rows of homes have been left swaying on crumbling cliffs.
Jimmy Mac, who live there with his partner Megan Shaw, said: “Look what we’re losing. It’s beautiful, isn’t it?
“It’s a dream home. It’s just a shame. I don’t want to move from this house.
“But I don’t know if I’m going to wake up with the sea in my bed.”
The tiny village has even erected signs telling visitors to beware and stay away.
One reads: “Danger. Do not proceed.”
Along the seaside front lay a battered arcade which has smashed-in windows and graffiti-covered walls, just a couple feet from the drop into the water.
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Statistics from 2021 shows just 678 people, the majority of who are over 60, lived in the seaside town.
A large amount of money has been invested into saving the small coastal community, however, it seems not enough.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the £36million, split between East Riding of Yorkshire Council and North Norfolk District Council, would help locals to “prepare and plan” for the worst.
A spokesman said: “These two locations are already living with the challenges of coastal erosion and between them include 84 per cent of the properties at risk of coastal erosion in England over the next 20 years.”
In June last year James Bevan, chief executive of the Environment Agency, added: “While we can come back safely after most river flooding, there’s no coming back for land that coastal erosion has taken away or which a rising sea level has put permanently or frequently under water.
“Which means that in some places the right answer will have to be to move communities away from danger.”
In 2022, it came under criticism for its “tired” appearance and alleged rat infestation.
YorkshireLive reporter Megan Banner, who visited the location this month, said: “It just lies rejected and unloved.
“I saw around two people during my whole visit – nothing in comparison to Filey and Bridlington just up the coast.
“It’s exactly what I imagined an 80s caravan holiday to be like, exactly like my parents and grandparents would describe, just nothing has changed or modernised since then – it was just left to rot.
“It’s like people here are just waiting for their indefinite fate.”
