LEAFLETS claiming that evicted council tenants would be given one of the new housing association homes at Morecambe were slammed as bogus this week. The anonymous leaflets have been circulating around Morecambe for the last few weeks and claim that evicted tenants from a council estate would be rehoused in a new home at the former Poulton Market site.
The city's housing chairman, Cllr Ian Barker, explained: "I can give a categoric assurance that there is no way that the council would house or nominate someone for a housing association home who had been evicted because of anti-social behaviour.
"These anonymous leaflets are simply designed to scare people and I am appalled by them."
The market site will see 34 housing association homes built. The city council has 50 per cent nomination rights for this development and people will be nominated from the housing register.
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