Tenants in mouldy London estate face uncertainty as council considers demolition

‘All I wanted was for Enfield council to admit they’d done wrong,’ says Bernadette Beaupierre, who is moving out of Shires estate in Edmonton. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Tenants living in blocks plagued with damp and mould face months of uncertainty after a council said it was considering demolishing them as fixing the issues was not “best value for money”.

Residents in the Shires estate, Edmonton, north London, have been given no further information about when works to decommission the estate will begin and are uncertain about plans for Enfield council to rehouse them.