CAMPAIGNERS are still fighting plans to house sex offenders at a rehab centre in Edenfield.

Several hundred letters are being sent to Langley House Trust which has put forward the plans.

Trust bosses recently scrapped proposals to include paedophiles at Chatterton Hey House, but sex offenders are still set to be housed at the centre, which is just a few hundred yards from a children’s playground.

Caron Beard, who is leading the campaign, said: “The trust bosses seem to think they have compromised with us because they are not going to put in paedophiles. They are expecting us to go away and the media coverage to fade. But we’re not going anywhere. We have to live in this village and we don’t want this on our doorstep.”

Rossendale MP Jake Berry is due to meet with the chief executive of Langley House Trust this week. Chatterton Hey is a registered drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre which was housing people with a variety of needs, including ex-offenders, until October 2010. A protest march is due to be held in the next couple of weeks from the park in Exchange Street to Chatterton Hey House.

The trust did not wish to comment.