The eviction of a council tenant who subjected her neighbours to "two years of hell" has prompted calls for a hostel for vulnerable youngsters to be built in Oxford.

Earlier this week bailiffs boarded up the two-bedroom Atwell Place flat in Headington that was home to Edwina Evans - more than a year after the first complaints were made about her noisy behaviour.

Oxford City Council's Crime and Nuisance Action Team (Canact) won a possession order giving them immediate rights over the property - but not enough is being done to crack down on unruly tenants according to one councillor.

Independent Working Class Association councillor Claire Kent, who represents Churchill ward, first contacted Canact about 36-year-old Evans's behaviour in February last year, after neighbours complained of being kept awake by incessant door banging, shouting and fighting.

Mrs Kent said: "It has been two years of hell. I'm pleased this has come to a conclusion, but there are serious issues with the way anti- social tenants are dealt with.

"There should be some sort of hostel allocation where people can go until they can prove they can maintain a tenancy. This is going on everywhere."

Six years ago, city councillors shelved an idea to build a residential block where vulnerable young people up to the age of 21 could live, sleep, and train for the outside world.

So-called Foyer projects already exist in Abingdon, Banbury and Witney, but a project in Oxford never got off the ground because it was deemed too controversial.

Earlier this year, the council agreed that would-be tenants with a history of anti- social behaviour would not be given social housing in a drive to get tough on yobs.

The council and city housing associations are now drawing up a single register on which the details of all tenants will be held.

At present, the organisations have their own lists, but it is thought a common roll would enable better information sharing - and reduce the chances of problem tenants getting accommodation.

Council housing officers use powers contained in the 1985 Housing Act Homelessness Act 2002 to boot out tenants who are guilty of anti- social behaviour.

The city council refused to comment on the case of Edwina Evans.

One of Evans's third floor neighbours, who did not want to be named, added: "All we wanted to do was get our lives back. We are glad to see the back of her."