Residents fear their Cheshire streets could be left 'uninhabitable' in 30 years

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Tens of thousands of properties in Cheshire are at risk of being rendered uninhabitable by flooding within 30 years a new report has found.

Streets across the country could be left unlivable due to rising sea levels by the year 2050, with areas of Halton and Warrington particularly vulnerable, according to the study, conducted by academics at the University of East Anglia.

Overall up to 11,000 homes in Cheshire are among 160,000 across England that the report published in the journal Oceans And Coastal Management says are at risk of being lost. READ MORE: The areas most at risk of flooding as communities with dispersed clusters of homes and buildings on a long flood plain, small quay and coastal harbour communities, and areas with a narrow space between the shoreline and rising ground, such as in Runcorn, reports Cheshire Live.

Kunal Gujar lives at the very end of Hean Castle Close in Runcorn, and from his kitchen he can see huge ocean-going ships pass metres away as they slink along the Manchester Ship Canal.