Disused Pillar Point flats are to be refurbished and ethnic Chinese housed separately, the management of the centre indicated yesterday.
They admitted there was no immediate prospect of the Chinese residents returning to the camp unless they were segregated.
'Unless we improve the environment . . . it will take some time for them to come back,' said a camp management source.
'At the moment, it's better than it has been in the past few days. It's quiet and everything is under control for now.' Representatives of Caritas, which manages the camp, toured Pillar Point yesterday to inspect disused buildings and see whether they could be renovated.
The flats are in a separate section of the camp and residents would be segregated, as they were up until early 1997.
The former managers, the St Stephens Society, said serious tension did not erupt until the ethnic Chinese Vietnamese were put in with the long-term Vietnamese refugees.
