Council officer Dean Butterworth told the meeting: “It is very clear that we have not got enough money to do everything we need to do, therefore we are going to have to make some very tough decisions based on the condition of housing stock.”
Mr Otten said everyone was “terribly frustrated” at the delays and abandonment of the masterplan, external.
“People were told in 2017 that their home was going to be knocked down and I can confirm this, a friend of mine is in the same boat and he’s been asking me for years when his house is going to be knocked down.
“He just wants to know, people need to plan their lives. I still can’t tell him. How much more talking will there be before we start the doing?”
Fellow Lib Dem councillor Martin Smith said: “Residents have gone beyond frustration, the council has let them down big time.
“Officers say at the time cost estimates were correct, and yet here we are a few years later and the cost has doubled.”
Dianne Hurst, from the Sheffield Community Councillors Group, said people had been living with increasingly dilapidated homes and the run-down estate had seen antisocial behaviour.
She said: “We owe it to them to give them a clear position as soon as possible and we need to apologise to residents for our incompetence.
“We have not been talking to residents, we need to tell them what we are intending to do and when.”
