CAMPAIGNERS are meeting on Friday, January 12 to drum up opposition to the possible sale of 155 properties in the Star Blocks estate in High Wycombe.

Pressure group Hands Off Our Homes says public money should be spent on redeveloping the Star Blocks rather than them being sold to a not-for-profit landlord.

Wycombe District Council is keeping its options open on the homes, which have been likened to a "war zone".

A district council spokesman said if a decision was taken to demolish the homes this would be done through a registered social landlord and not a private company.

A report will be going to the council's housing and economic development committee on January 22.

Beverly Passey, chairman of the Wycombe tenants group, said: "The council haven't got the money to redevelop and the Government won't allocate any money.

"The only choice at the present time is to be transferred to a housing association. Tenants will have a choice and nothing will happen until a ballot. Those people who are in the property at the minute who don't want to go to housing association, the council will house them in another council house."

Council tenants decided in August that they would prefer to keep the district council as their landlord rather than have a private not-for-profit company running them, even though they had been told this would mean lower rent rises and seats on the new company's board. The Star Blocks was the only estate where the homes would probably have been demolished and rebuilt under the transfer scheme.

The meeting is in the Micklefield Community Centre at 7.45pm.