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Article: Landslip: homes should never have been built.
- Article from:
- Scarborough Evening News (Scarborough, England)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2008
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RESIDENTS living near homes threatened with destruction, say they should never have been built.
Retired teacher, Molly Crowcroft, lives in Filey Road.
Her home has been in the family for more than 90 years and she has seen the changes around Knipe Point since she was a teenager.
She said: "The Knipe Point development should never have been built. The houses near to the edge have always looked precarious. As soon as they were put up, I said I would give them 30 years.
"The development is actually built on top of a bore hole. Everyone who has been here for a long time knows how much land we have lost over the last 30 years. The ravine has ...