A house left teetering on a cliff edge after months of storms is being dismantled to prevent it falling into the sea and polluting it.
Juliet Blaxland was forced out of her rented home on the Suffolk coast before Christmas after 30ft of cliff was eroded in just four months.
Now demolition experts want to pull the building apart to prevent non-biodegradable construction materials such as cables being washed into the North Sea.
Juliet, 55, and husband Giles Stibbe, 60, moved to the hamlet Easton Bavents, near Southwold, 12 years ago.
They calculated that with an average land loss of 10ft a year their home would be safe until 2022 at the earliest.
But increasingly violent weather systems brought a number of fierce storms in October and November that speeded up the process.
Author Juliet, 55, said: “All of the cliffs were saturated with rainfall so that’s why there have been so many collapses recently.
"They got us out fairly quickly because the erosion suddenly came in.”
She and Giles have now moved to nearby Covehithe as their former home is dismantled. Juliet said: “They’ve started piling up bricks so I believe they want to salvage certain things.”
Even their new home will be washed away within the next 35 years.
Juliet said: “We can still see the sea from our house. But it’s several hundred yards away instead of 10m from our door. One day this will be gone too.”
