King Charles' Coast Path is 'too dangerous' due to crumbling cliffs

Locals living alongside the planned King Charles III Coast Path fear the opening could be delayed after coastal erosion devastated the proposed route – and say the King would not dare go near the crumbling cliffs.

Natural England believe it can be remapped by next year – but locals living next to the route on the Holderness Coast say it will be more like five because of difficulty tracing the land owners for renegotiations on public access. Parts of the route are already open, including the stretch between Scarborough and Bridlington, further North. But south of Bridlington the route has to cross the coastal erosion hotspots in and around the East Riding villages of Skipsea, Mappleton, Barmston and Ulrome.

'I do a lot of walking. The road is horrible. I have walked the road. The speed of the erosion is unbelievable. The footpath is only a yard wide. There is not even enough space for walkers and cyclists to pass each other. It is going at rate of three or four metres a year.' She said: 'Coastal erosion is coastal erosion. The coastline where we live near Skipsea has changed dramatically is just the ten years we have lived there. It has edged back and edged back. The local caravan site has lost at least two rows in the time we have been here.

'So they have no choice but to divert the route but I don't know where they can divert it too. We have no idea who owns a lot of the land. A huge chunk of the route through East Yorkshire will have to go back to the drawing board because coastal erosion has made the clifftop paths too dangerous to walk on

Lesley Green, 54, Hornsea is a bit of forgotten place to say how beautiful it is. So it no surprise they have overlooked the coastal erosion. The paths are very narrow and very changeable. You often see the emergency services on the cliffs when animals have fallen off the edge. It is a shame – but nature is in charge.

Stuart Kemp, 75, a retired worker from a firm of timber importers in Hull, insisted coastal paths were vital for walkers 'Some of these cliffs are also very dangerous to climb. Hornsea Inshore Rescue have done several rescues on cliffs south of Hornsea where walkers have tried to scramble up the cliffs after being caught by the tide and get stuck halfway up.

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