Shocking pictures released on Saturday morning show homes missing walls, which have fallen into the sea, and others standing on only concrete blocks, the land around them swept away as waves lap at what’s left.
An east coast low caused strong waves to hammer the seaside homes near Wamberal Beach for several days, causing severe erosion.A Wamberal Beach home is close to collapsing.“This is quite a tragedy and it should never, never have happened,” she told Sunrise on Saturday morning.“There’s got to be blood on their hands, this is absolute devastation,” resident Warren Hughes told“They say they’ve been lobbying for a seawall for decades with similar levels of erosion taking place in 2016.
“If residents with sound advice, engineering advice, need to do works to save their own home, council won’t be taking any action against them,” he said. A hazardous surf warning has been issued by the Bureau of Meteorology until midnight on Saturday for the Byron Coast, Coffs Coast, Macquarie Coast, Hunter Coast, Sydney Coast, Illawarra Coast, Batemans Coast and Eden Coast.
I feel for the local residents on this and the council should have done something years ago.
Northern beaches council is as equally difficult with Collaroy beachfront residents. The fight and court battles to protect their homes is reprehensible.
Who’s going to foot the multi-million dollar bill for a sea wall, assuming one can even be built? They’d need to drill right down to even get footings. Wouldn’t think spending so much taxpayer money to benefit only a small section of a community would be considered fair.
Fortune favours the brave. However in this case, hesitation and an advanced risk assessment would have been prudent.
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