Asylum Seekers to Be Removed From Essex Hotel as Council Granted Injunction

Oxfordshire council refuses to comment after Epping hotel ruling

Cherwell District Council has declined to comment after Epping Forest District Council was granted a temporary injunction which will…

Holly Whitbread: Epping shows Conservative councils how to fight back

Cllr Holly Whitbread is an Epping Forest District councillor and the Cabinet Member, Housing & Community. At the High Court yesterday, Epping Forest District Council secured a major victory. The court granted an interim injunction preventing the Bell Hotel in Epping from being used to house asylum seekers, and the defendant was denied leave to appeal.    Conservative-led Epping Forest District Council committed to using every democratic, diploma…

The Epping tipping point

Yesterday’s injunction granted to Epping Forest council giving the government three weeks to stop using the Bell Hotel for asylum seekers on planning grounds is not quite the slam-dunk that it looks. It is theoretically open to appeal: furthermore, it is only an interim measure pending a full trial later this year. But the affair

Tory Councillors Launch Bid To Close Down Cheshire Asylum Hotel After Epping Ruling

Local Conservatives are pushing to remove asylum seekers from a Cheshire hotel after an Essex was granted a High Court injunction blocking them from b...

Why Ministers Could Be Placed In An Impossible Legal Situation By Asylum Hotel Ruling

The government can't say where immigrants removed from hotels will go.

UK set for more legal challenges over migrant hotels

Britain's government was considering Wednesday whether to appeal a court ruling blocking the housing of asylum seekers in a flashpoint hotel, as it scrambled to come up with contingency plans for the migrants.