'Cliff dwellers': After storm surges, how safe is it living on the edge?

The appeal of having a vista overlooking the city can come at cost.
 
Dramatic photographs of a cliff slide under a Stanley Point home captured the full peril of having a home built on the edge.
 
Warnings from experts that extreme weather events will become more common have so far not dissuaded those living in these beautiful cliffside homes from moving.

In fact, some of these homes were only built recently.

So, why are people allowed to build in these areas? Is it time for the rules to change? And will the insurance sector stop taking on the risk of covering these homes?
 
Today, Damien asks NZ Herald property editor Anne Gibson what danger the future holds for Aotearoa’s cliff dwellers.

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