FAMILIES face spending Christmas without a home after six months of moving between hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation.

In May, 64 families were evicted from military housing at the former RAF base on Hillingdon Hill, which was being used by a housing association, to allow building work to begin. Some have still not been re housed.

Seven households still do not have a permanent home, although Hillingdon Council says it aims to get at least four of them a place before Christmas Day.

“Of the 64 original families from the RAF Uxbridge development only seven now remain in bed and breakfast accommodation,” said Neil Stubbings, head of housing at Hillingdon Council.

“We continue to assist these remaining families in their search for accommodation.”

Last week the authority responded to a petition submitted in May requesting an independent investigation into why neither Notting Hill Housing Association nor the council had a contingency plan in place to re-house the people who had been living on the RAF Uxbridge site in former service family accommodation.

The council says it did have a process in place to assist tenants when their private sector tenancy ended and that it took additional measures to help.

The accommodation, largely in an area close to the base gate in Hillingdon Road opposite The Greenway, has since been refurbished and put on the market as part of the St Andrew's Park development.