RESIDENTS will spend the next two weeks in limbo as they await a final decision on the future of their homes.

Two terraced roads in the Picton area of Wavertree have been left out of a legal order forcing hundreds of Liverpool residents to sell their homes so they can be bulldozed and rebuilt.

The compulsory purchase order (CPO), covering parts of Wavertree, Edge Hill and Anfield, was approved by government minister Ruth Kelly last week.

But she asked the council for more information about Cantsfield Street and Tunstall Street, where many residents oppose demolition, before deciding whether they should be included.

Liberal group leader Steve Radford, who led objections to the CPO at a public inquiry, said: “It just shows residents in other parts of the city that if your street sticks together and resists demolition, it is sometimes worth it.”