RESIDENTS of the doomed Moathouse Estate are set for more disappointment after the council announced nearly 100 of them will miss out on the new home of their choice.

Tenants were told in July their homes had to be torn down after the estate was found to be suffering from concrete corrosion.

Brian Dunning, the council's head of housing, said after asking residents where they wanted to move, around 70 per cent listed the Wistaston Green Estate as their first choice.

"We have 160 or so tenants to re-house and we are hoping that we can complete the re-housing in a year or 15 months," he said.

"In any 12 month period we are not likely to get more than about 20 vacancies on that estate. So clearly we are not going to be able to re-house them all there because of the supply of houses."

Mr Dunning said the council had devised a points system to decide which tenants will make the cut.

"The housing committee will discuss this issue, we will then go and talk to the local residents group and get their views.

The council will be awarding residents points for:

The length of time they have spent on the Moathouse Estate.

Having children at the local junior school.

Having a job in the area.

Receiving support from friends and relatives.

Having a caring responsibility in the area.

Mr Dunning said: "We will keep in contant touch with residents as the process is developing so they will have some idea of when their block is likely to be re-housed."

Concerned Moathouse resident Lynette Mellor moved to the estate on medical grounds from Leighton Park after her daughter developed problems at school.

"It's very important that we move to Wistaston Green because of Roxanne. We had to get a doctor's note to prove it."

Mrs Mellor said her daughter now goes to the local Vine Tree junior school, which the council claim would help her chances under the points system.

"But more or less all the kids on the estate go there, so it wouldn't give me that much of an advantage," she said.

"The council say there aren't many vacancies at Wistaston Green but they are still locating people there who aren't from this estate. They aren't trying to keep them for us.

"At the end of the day they are moving us about like cattle and you can't say where you are going to end up."

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