Angry residents have created “uproar” over plans to house recovering addicts in their quiet Morden street.

They claim Pollard Road is the wrong setting for a home offering temporary respite for former drink and drug users.

But a spokeswoman for Kairos Community Trust, which is submitting a planning application to convert former St Joseph’s Convent into a home for addicts who have been clean for more than six months, said the vacant building would be a place for addicts to rebuild their lives, not a “doss house”.

Kairos admin manager Dorothy Woodward said: “It’s hostel-type accommodation where people can live safely and securely.

"If people do drink or take drugs they’re immediately evicted.”

The trust runs 30 similar buildings across London.

Miss Woodward said the charity stepped in because addicts often had nowhere to live after completing rehabilitation.

Resident Gary Stanton said the news had caused “total uproar” on the street.

He claimed the home’s arrival would lower property prices and said a road with high numbers of children and older people was unsuitable for a halfway house.

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