John Robinson said: Nobody's been helping us and we're not being told anything.

It will be discussed by Scarborough council chiefs next week.

There you go John R, I bet you are feeling better already knowing SBCs cabinet is on the case.

Difficult one this. I feel sorry for those who live there with the nightmare of whether they will be next, however, we as tax payer whether its local council tax or if its funded nationally can not afford the 20 million to fund the works assuming it would costs that amount

The findings of the report were on the BBBC news web site yesterday.

Confirms what most of us who have lived in the area have know for a long time, the homes should never have been built.

Having said that, someone in their wisdom gave planning permission and due to that decision the owners of the homes now find themselves in the predicament they are in.

Having spent over £30 million on the new road I find it hard to see how the Council can justify spending another £20 million plus on trying to go against what can only be classed as a natural occurrence.

I agree with Shrek, this is a difficult situation, however shouldn't the person(s) who allowed this development to be built be made to take some responsibility!?

Pretty basic geology. slip faulting happens in boulder clay because cracks opened in summer drought fill with water in winter (which lubricates and causes slippage). The Cornelian area is a textbook example.

They must have been nuts!

Re 4:
You ask:"shouldn't the person(s) who allowed this development to be built be made to take some responsibility!?"
This would be a novel concept within local government in Scarborough - it will probably happen the day after somebody within the Town Hall owns up to the debacle they've made of the North Bay redevelopment - ie, when pigs are seen flying over The Sands

I feel for the residents here. Unless they had known Scarborough well before buying at Knipe Point they wouldn't have any idea of the problems. Some of us remember when it was a NALGO site, then it became Cayton Park Holiday Inn. That company cleared the site and sold off the wooden holiday cabins and also, if I remember rightly, cut down the trees bordering on Flley Road which had preservation orders on them. They ran the old Nalgo clubhouse as a cabaret bar for some time I believe.

Then came the development we are familiar with built in stages as holiday homes with year round occupancy prohibited and they were sold for something like £15,000 in the early 70's. The SBC always knew the site was iffy which is why it was for holiday use only. However, in their wisdom they decided to allow development to expand and the holiday use only restriction to be lifted. Whereupon the price shot up! Surprise, surprise.

Of course the bungalows should never have been built and used as permanent homes and SBC have a responsibility to those who now find themselves in danger of losing their homes. Is negligence too strong a word for what has happened here? It is possible that to pay compensation to the residents, and abandon the site to the forces of nature might be the most sensible and cost effective route rather than trying to stabilise the cliff.

Time someone asked the question - how come these people were so daft in the first place as to buy properties at Knipe Point? Second homes or whatever, everyone in the town knew they were fated to drop into the sea sooner or later. More money than sense? Why are we all so concerned about them anyway? No one who actually lives in the town owns one of these doomed holiday homes do they?

To the above No8 saying that all residents are stupid buying at Knipe Point. We baught a house over there at alot of money, we had to get a local surveyer who told us that they were unaware of any landslips.We knew we wasent covered for coastal erosion. The main fault is at the beginning who knew there was a problem in the first place, so how .did they get planning permission

It was ideal in its original concept of NALGO holiday camp.

It was certainly not ideal as a permanent residential site. How many houses are there from Knipe Point either way on the East side of Filey Road ?. That should have been a warning in itself. There are no properties northwards until you get down into the hollow for Cornelian Drive other than an odd house.

The question that needs answering is who within SBC gave planning permission for the development ?

Most locals know/knew that the land in that area was liable to slippage and it has been doing just that for years in dribs and drabs.

At the end of the day it most certainly does not warrant £20 million spending on it for a few properties. As sad as it maybe.