Anger as frail Watchet tenants fear eviction if flats sale plan approved

VULNERABLE tenants in two ‘affordable’ Watchet housing developments fear they will be made homeless if a planning application which would allow the properties to be put up for sale is successful.

Tenants of five flats at Malthouse Court and Mill Street Bakery, Watchet, said the first they knew of their landlord’s plans to sell their homes was when planning notices were put up on the sites.

The flats are occupied by elderly or seriously ill tenants who say they have nowhere else to live and could not afford to buy the property or rent anywhere more expensive if they are evicted.