Easy answer to Knipe Point
RE the £20 million cost of stabilising the cliff edge at knipe point (Evening News, June 17).
There is still no guarantee this will work in the long run. Instead of wasting yet more tax payers' money and awarding non-local businesses contracts to do this work, the easiest solution is as follows.
1 Obtain a compulsory purchase order for all the 56 bungalows.
2 Demolish every one of them, and clean up the site.
3 Let nature take its course.
This type of erosion has been happening for years and with the weight of the houses built by the edge of a cliff this has speeded up the process considerably.
Although it is devastating for residents to lose their homes like this, like a local resident said, they can't sell, move or remortgage etc.
Surely it doesn't take an accountant to work out that 56 bungalows at an average cost of 180,000 each is only 10.8 million as opposed to 20 million.
It is likely to cost around 2 million to clean up the site and plant trees, which in time will stabilise the ground with their root systems.
It's about time Scarborough Council stopped pussyfooting around wasting time and money, with no real leadership to have the guts to make an important decision and help these residents out by doing the most economical, environmentally friendly solution.
This would also boost the local business economy if they have the brains to award the work to local firms.
After all, it was the council in its wisdom which gave planning permission for the houses to be built in the first place.
So, come on councillors, do the most economical and sensible thing that you have done for this town in decades and make a proper decision.
Ian Kevan
Prospect Crescent
Scarborough
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