“We will try and make decisions to get people back into their homes as quickly as we can, but we need to have a knowledge over that – we can’t let people go back into their homes if we feel there’s a danger.
“We noticed that since we had to leave in the middle of the night, that affects the baby really badly, she has been really clingy, wants mummy and daddy all the time – she has been crying out in the middle of the night because she doesn’t know where she is.”.
“We need to be really sure that there’s not a danger and we will be releasing people back into their homes gradually over a period of time, I don’t know what that period of time is”.
Residents from 30 properties were evacuated after a sinkhole appeared in the High Street, Godstone, on the night of February 17 and 24 homes remain uninhabitable.
During a Tandridge District Council public meeting on Tuesday evening, residents complained about a lack of clarity on housing provisions and some reported having to move accommodation nearly every day.
