seawall

With the beach underwater, the seawalls destroyed and so many homes surrendered, the pressure is now on Highway 1 to hold the line between land and sea.

"If the water keeps on rising, in the way it has in the last 10 years or so, the seawall will not be able to protect Saibai at all," he said in his submission.

Estimates for the cost of new septic systems and protective seawalls have spiraled to $500,000 and considerably more, homeowners say.

John Moore helped his three granddaughters throw a bottle each from the seawall at Ramsgate Harbour at the end of November.

The death of a woman who reportedly fell on to seawall rocks on a beach in Suffolk is being treated as "unexplained" but "not suspicious".