Godstone: Huge sinkhole swallows up more of Surrey street - BBC News

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• flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Non-AMP link.

  This is the kind of news that plays in the background of disaster films before it all goes to shit.

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The evacuated properties were built about three years ago, on the site of a former sand quarry.

  Oh dear. Must be some very nervous residents in the area right now.

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Sotheby ground” as in “going, going, gone”?

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  • florge@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why do we keep letting new builds be built on old quarries?

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    • ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pulls air through teeth…I think I know the problem

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• SenatorCollins@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.

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  • dave@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What kind of materials was the street made out of?

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    • SenatorCollins@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, there are regulations governing the materials they can be made of.

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