A fifth cliff fall in the last week has seen yet more of the crumbling cliffs at Pennington Point in Sidmouth crash into the sea.
The latest cliff fall, which happened at 11.06am on Monday, has seen hundreds more tonnes of dirt collapse onto the beach.
Eye-witness Shane Lomas, who took these latest pictures, said that although there has been a lot of cliff falls in Sidmouth recently, this is the first one that he has seen himself. He said: “It happened so quickly that you wouldn’t have a chance of surviving if you were at bottom of the cliff face.”
Hundreds of tonnes of dirt and soil have plummeted onto East Beach and into the River Sid in four separate cliffs falls which took place in just a few days. Resident Paul Griew, of the Cliff Road Action Group, added: “If Pennington Point goes another four or five metres, the River Sid will become the sea.If we then have a high tide and a south-easterly gale, water will rush over the river wall and flood across the Ham – and Sidmouth will be under water.
“It is estimated that such a flood will cause £72million of damage to people’s homes and businesses which won’t be able to run. Something needs to be done or Sidmouth is going to be flooded.”
A public exhibition on multi-million pound plans to protect Sidmouth from coastal erosion will take place next month.
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