Rising sea levels will have a major impact on the South East’s coastline over the decades to come. It could result in the map of the region being completely redrawn. Even those miles from the sea could end up living under water.

If you own land in Kent where they’ve built the Ebbsfleet high speed rail link, the Government paid you the market rate compensation for it.

But if you own a property near the coast in the South East, and if the government decides to stop maintaining the sea defences, you won’t get a penny in compensation.

In the next 50 years hundreds, possibly thousands, of homes in Kent and Sussex could face being abandoned to the sea and, if you own one, the Government won’t pay you a penny.

In fact, you’ll be expected to pay to safely demolish your own home so it doesn’t pollute the sea.

You’ll then have to put your name on the council housing list.

Climate change is changing the way we look at the map of the South East - and without action, those changes could be radical.

Read the full story on the BBC website including detailed climate maps for Kent and the Southern Counties

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