Blind residents faced with losing their Roehampton home say they have sleepless nights, and fear their community will be ripped apart as they wait to hear when a charity will close their home down.

In February, the Thomas Pocklington Trust confirmed the suspicions of blind residents in the home, near the Alton estate, when it announced the home would be closing because too few residents fit the criteria for the services offered there.

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The remaining residents, of which there are more than 40, say they have not been given a date for their move, because the charity does not want to evict them, but that is not helping them move into new accommodation.

Reverend Jim McKinney, vicar at the church in Ponsonby Road, and his wife Councillor Sue McKinney, have been building support from the community to fight the closure.

Mr McKinney said: “Pocklington was not just for the residents, it was sort of a social facility, members of the community and family members would be invited to things here.

“It was an important hub within the parish.”

Dr Devaki Sivasubramanian has been living in a flat in Pocklington Court for two years, and says the stress of not knowing when she will have to leave means she wakes up at night and cannot sleep.

She said: “I want something to happen, this is wrong.

“I do not understand what is going on, I’m so worried. They have to find somewhere else, even if they go to housing associations or the council. We are not beggars, we pay our way.”

Dr Sivasubramanian said she had been left confused in the process of getting on the housing register too, claiming she was told she could not apply for housing while living in adequate accommodation at Pocklington Court.

The trust said there was an on-site housing officer providing guidance with housing applications and that financial assistance was being offered to pay for moving costs and deposits.

The trust said it would be offering six weeks of floating support to tenants after they have moved out, but a letter sent to them shows this is only if they stay in the “London area”.

Natalie Wright, 48, has lived in the court for five years and said she assumed she would die there when she moved in.

She said: “I am quite mobile and on low level support, so people like me will probably get forgotten in it all.

“They will probably tell me to go back to independent living, but I have done that and I struggled.”

Miss Wright said she valued the extra support from the staff, who she praised, and the wardens who could come outside of office hours in an emergency.

She said the residents had “pulled together” in recent years as more services were cut from the centre, adding that they supported each other and she felt their community would be ripped apart.

Jeff Wateridge, another resident, said: “I thought I was going to die here, we thought it would be our final move.

“I am disgusted at the way it has been handled, no one has come from head office to tell us what is going on.”

The trust told the Wandsworth Guardian that the director of people and charity is on site at least once a fortnight for meetings with tenants.

A spokesman for the Thomas Pocklington Trust said: “Our priority is always the wellbeing of the people we support, and we take these concerns very seriously. Since announcing our decision to no longer offer supported housing in February 2016, we have been working closely with tenants, the relevant authorities, and housing providers, to find alternative accommodation that meets their individual needs and preferences.

“We are committed to supporting tenants throughout the transition process, and no long-term decisions will be made about the building until all tenants have been rehoused.”