Social landlord bosses want to quash rumours they are about to remove “life-saving” door staff from a block of high-rise flats in Bingley.

Word heard by tenants in Brunswick House, Crossley Wood Road, was that Incommunities was planning to shut their concierge office and re-locate the service to Buchan Towers in Bradford.

Chairman of Crossley Wood Tenants Group, Anne Howard, said people had heard the office was going to be shut, with CCTV cameras to be scrutinised from flats in Bradford instead.

She said: “They will be fixed cameras, they won’t be able to move them round. It’s going to be a drug dealers’ paradise again if our security goes.”

In March this year, residents of the flats praised a security guard they said saved lives by dialling 999 after a suspected arson attack.

More than 80 Brunswick House residents started a petition because they wanted assurances from housing provider Incommunities that their on-site doormen would not be axed.

But Incommunities told the petitioners it had no plans at that time to change services there or at any other blocks in Gilstead.

A spokesman for Incommunities said today: “We can confirm we have no plans at this time to move or close the concierge service at Brunswick House.”

But he added: “We are undertaking a review of the concierge service across the district to ensure we continue to provide effective local services for the benefit of our customers.

“We always fully consult residents, in the first instance, if we are looking to make any changes to our services.”

Mrs Howard later contacted the Telegraph & Argus to say she had been contacted by Incommunities and had been assured nothing would change without anyone being consulted.

“I’ve asked for it in writing,” she said.