Seaside Council takes legal steps into account to return a migrant hotel to tourists

A coastal council is considering legal steps to close a local asylum hotel so that it can be used again by tourists.

Bosses of the district council East Lindsey, in which Skegness is located, weigh their options after a decision -making party from High Court in Epping early this week.

On Tuesday, Epping Council won a temporary injunction to remove migrants from the Bell Hotel when the court was with his claim that the use of the hotel broke through the planning law.

Skegness is primarily known for its coastal town on the Lincolnshire coast and is the largest city in East Lindsey with a population of just over 21,000 inhabitants.

The previous government reduced the number of asylum seekers in Hotels in Lincolnshire, which means that only a hotel has been used to accommodate migrants since January 2024.

Cllr Craig Leyland, the Tory chairman of the East Lindsey Council, told The Telegraph: “We were always clear to the government that we are strong against the use of hotels in our district by the Interior Ministry for those looking as a asylum.

“I have followed the case through the conservative Epping Forest District Council and yesterday’s judgment judgment with great interest. I asked the civil servants to examine and understand this case, and will take appropriate measures as soon as we understand whether there are similarities to which we can react.

“East Lindsey is one of the most visited holiday destinations in the country, and we are currently in the high season for skegness and our other coastal resorts.

“We continue to endeavor to do everything in order to return this important tourism accommodation to your intended use and to preserve and promote our position as an inviting family vacation location.”

The population of the skegness increases every summer to around 250,000 to around 250,000 when tourists visit the coast.

The resort receives a total of four million visitors every year and the jobs in connection with tourism are four times as large as the national average.

The Epping judgment gave up the government’s asylum plans after the Interior Ministry had tried to intervene at the last minute.

Other councils across Great Britain are considering taking legal steps, including Labor-Lun-Wäral and Tamworth.

According to the UK reform, all 12 district councilors who were under his control will stand up for the closure of asylum hotels in their areas.

Six councils, including Newcastle, Ashford in Kent, Wychavon, South Staffordshire and North Yorkshire, informed the Telegraph that they would not have their own challenges.

Small boat arrival at record high

The Home Office had informed the High Court that other applications could “tighten the pressure on the asylum ownership”, with 200 migrant hotels still open and estimated 32,000 people were accommodated.

On Wednesday, however, the Telegraph announced that the Home Office made an urgent objection to 5,000 properties for the accommodation of up to 20,000 migrants last week.

Asylum -tuning entrepreneurs who worked for the home office turned to real estate specialists in early August and searched for 5,000 residential units. Insiders suggested that each apartment would have an average of two bedrooms, whereby the space for four migrants would be accommodated.

The ministers try to work with councils to buy, rent or rent houses and free real estate in which asylum seekers can be placed as alternative to hotels. Officials also aim at disused tower blocks, student accommodation and old teacher training colleagues as “medium -sized” accommodation points.

It is assumed that the new appointment sought short -term rental contracts or rents in which migrants would be accommodated for 90 days with a termination notice of 30 days.

The work has undertaken to end the use of asylum hotels through the next general elections that are expected in 2029.

But at the moment, small boats are on a record high this year, as the sewer crisis continues to deteriorate under contractions.

More than 50,000 migrants have now arrived with a small boat since Sir Keir was in power in July 2024.

The ministers cannot currently say where people who have lived in the bell in Epping are housed instead.

The party was asked to exclude moving asylum seekers to accommodation from the local communities.

Kemi Badenoch, the Tory manager, suggested that “camps” should be used to accommodate asylum seekers and more hotels or rental accommodation.

On Thursday, Chris Philp said that the Interior Minister of Shadow said that the conservatives were to “reduce” their efforts to accommodate migrants outside of hotels with more load barges.

The Bibby Stockholm Lastkahn in Portland, in which there were around 400 migrants, was stopped as temporary accommodation for asylum seekers after the work had come to power.

After months of delays, the first asylum seekers who dealt with Bibby Stockholm on board in August 2023 were evacuated after only four days when Legionella bacteria were discovered on the load barge.

It led to great clean -up work and health checks before migrants returned at the end of October. In December, an Albanian asylum seeker committed suicide.

When asked about alternatives to asylum accommodation, Mr. Philp told BBC Radio 4 Today program: “Well, some military sites were used, the Napier barracks in Folkestone were an example.

“There was also the Bibby Stockholm Lastkahn, with which oil and gas workers are usually housed.

Mr. Philp said he didn’t “boast” with the Bibby Stockholm and replied: “You asked me what the other options are, I told you what you are.”

In question, what could work in practice, he said: “There are options for ready -made accommodations that other countries have used.

“But the most important point is to fix the problem. You have to prevent you from entering people illegally.”

In an interview with the same program, Sir David Norington, a former constant secretary of the Interior Ministry, said, large -scale camps for asylum seekers were “desirable”.

But Sir David added: “The last government in 2022 announced that it would acquire some large locations and acquire some.

“But in the two years after an announcement, in which it had housed more than one percent of asylum seekers, it never has one point.

“They are very difficult to build … it is not an immediate reaction to the legal cases we have at the moment.”