14 plots of land at Crossgates are to purchased by the Borough Council for use as relocation sites for people affected by coastal erosion.
The land at Saxon Park in Crossgates is going to be used to provide a safe haven for owners of properties that might be at risk from coastal erosion.
A grant was used to buy the site back in 2014 on behalf of residents at Knipe Point, it was thought their homes were at risk from cliff erosion, but since then the land has not been needed.
Now the borough council is to buy back the land to secure it for other residents who might face coastal erosion in the future.
Michelle Donohue-Moncrieff explains why the land was purchased and what's happening now.
The land was initially purchased using a £1m DEFRA grant back in 2014 to provide a safe haven for residents at Knipe Point in Cayton Bay, £811k of the funding was used to purchase the land for the Saxon Park Residents Association. If the properties at Knipe Point had ever become unusable due to coastal erosion the residents could then have used insurance payouts to build new homes on the Saxon Park site.
But as Borough Council leader Steve Siddons explains, the land was never actually needed.
The council will now buy the land from the residents association for a pound and will be able to use it to relocate residents affected by coastal erosion from across the borough.


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