Terrified families are living in fear that their homes will collapse at any minute due to major subsidence issues which could force them to soon be knocked down.
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People living in a Surrey neighbourhood fear 'disaster will strike' and their 1930s homes collapse or slip down due to subsidence.
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Up to 1,000 homes in Guilford face being demolished or regenerated in some form due to subsidence.
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It has been caused by shallow foundations in the clay soil in which the properties were built.
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Thirty-five council-owned houses are standing empty because of the issue, with many other privately owned properties also facing the same problem.
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Families face seeing huge cracks in inside and outside walls constantly emerge, leading them to fear their homes will fall down.
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Some are unable to close doors or windows.
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The problem centres in the Park Barn and Westborough areas.
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The issue is particularly bad when the clay gets wet, as locals say it then moves, and when it dries, it also moves.
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People living in Guilford, Surrey, fear 'disaster will strike' and their 1930s homes will collapse or slip down due to subsidence
Pregnant mum Emma Young, 27, who said she lives in 'constant fear' explains: 'We moved in January and could see no evidence of issues.
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We have a private landlord.
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'Then cracks have continued to emerge since then.
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We cannot open our front door.
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Cracks are coming through the walls and the bricks all the time.
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It's no way to live.
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I have a young son and another baby on the way.
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I fear the house could all fall down at any moment.
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What if it all falls on us?
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We wouldn't stand a chance.
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Emma said the family were looking to move out 'as soon as possible', adding: 'It's causing fire risks everywhere.
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We're having to use the backdoor.
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If there's a fire at the back, christ knows what will happen.
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We just want a nice family home.
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Quite often, we can be sitting there and you can hear the dust falling down because of the subsidence.
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The house just feels like it's slowly falling down.
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One day it might just all give way.
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Mum Kristine Osborne, 30, also faces the issue of cracks emerging in her property where she lives with her family.
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A door upstairs also cannot open.
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Her immediate nextdoor house has been sealed off, is being up with scaffolding and metal supports, with nobody living inside it.
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Pensioner Alastair Montgomery, 88, lives in a council-owned property which is also impacted.
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He has suffered a heart attack and has other health issues but is adamant he will not move out
Support beams in place at empty council-owned homes on Foxburrows Avenue
Cracks in Kristine Osborne's home
Many others in the area also have the same support structures around them.
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Kristine said: 'We've been waiting to move for four years.
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Our front door is stuck and there's cracks everywhere.
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They've just grown in time.
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There's not really much we can do.
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We're just waiting.
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'Everything was fine when we first moved in.
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It's just gotten worse since then.
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The plan is to knock this down but they need to find us somewhere to go first.'
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Another private resident in the area said she feared her house would also collapse.
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…and 35 more, not listed.
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