WORRIED residents living in an 'unfit' row of terraces in Nelson will meet councillors and senior officials to find a solution to their problems.

A Pendle Council report said the 110-year-old row in Every Street was unfit for human habitation, with penetrating damp, perishing pointing, rotting woodwork and cracking rendering affecting the five houses.

Ward councillor Mohammad Azam, said: "In my view and the view of the residents, the conditions are so bad the houses are not fit to live in."

But the council report said there was no immediate danger of the back walls collapsing and there were many other houses in Pendle in a similar or worse state.

The borough is faced with a massive shortage of cash to pay for vital repair and renovation work. After two London boroughs it has the oldest housing in the country.

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