Defiant neighbours living metres from a major cliff fall have vowed “we’re staying put”. Rocks crashed from the crumbling cliff at Newhaven on Sunday and fell into the sea. More of the rockface was left dangling precariously.
But people living in mobile homes on Newhaven Heights Park have no plans to move out. Despite being only metres from where the fall happened, residents at the park in Court Farm Road said they are not worried about the erosion. John Catt, 77, who moved in only five weeks ago, said: “I love it here.
“People don’t worry about the erosion. We don’t talk about it. I moved here from Saltdean and I knew bits and pieces would fall into the sea.
“I’ll leave this home to my son.” John Catt was not deterred from moving into Newhaven Heights Park by cliff erosion issues (Image: The Argus) READ MORE: Newhaven cliff fall just metres from seaside mobile home park Mansell Dabson, 90, who has lived there for eight years, said the erosion was “awful” but he does not want to move. He said: “We don’t quite know where the recent cliff fall was but you must not go to the cliff’s edge.
People used to come up here to picnic, but you can’t do that now.” Mansell Dabson thinks it's too early to worry about cliff erosion (Image: The Argus) Another neighbour, an 85-year-old woman who asked not to be named, said she has lived there for 17 years and plans to stay. She said: “It is nature.
I am not worried about it. During the weekend and the school.
