A new map has revealed a huge stretch of the North East coast is unprotected from erosion over the next 100 years and has been abandoned.

The interactive map, created by One Home, was created to highlight 21 English coastal communities most at risk of coastal erosion – which has been accelerating due to the climate crisis.

For each area, the map shows a projection of how much of the coast might be lost by 2100.

One Home are keen to stress that they have assumed all shoreline management policies will be delivered.

However, this is unlikely to happen due to funding constraints, so the number of homes impacted is likely to be far higher.

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Shoreline Management Plans taken into account include Hold the Line, which sees local authorities maintaining or upgrading the level of protection provided by sea defences – represented by a blue line.

Meanwhile, Managed Realignment is shown with a yellow line, which consists of moving or allowing the shoreline to retreat or advance in a managed way, and creating tidal habitats where appropriate.

Finally, red lines represent No Active Intervention, which would result in no investment in maintaining sea defences – or in layperson’s terms, the coastal area would be “abandoned.”

Based on the map, a huge stretch of North East coast stretching from just below Seaham down to just above Hartlepool, will experience coastal erosion and sits within a red line, meaning it has been abandoned.

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The map shows the coast will retreat inland quite drastically, however, currently no communities would be affected by the erosion.

This means that, as far as One Home is aware, no houses or streets would be destroyed by this coastal erosion, but it would result in the destruction of coastal habitats.

You can see the interactive map here