Epping migrant hotel will remain OPEN as Home Office wins High Court battle – sparking fears of mass protests

Judges, after overthrowing a decision that will see closely within two weeks, a hotel in the center of anti -immigrant protests, will continue to resume asylum seekers.

Today, at a major hearing, the Court of Appeal decided to prevent 138 asylum seekers from taking part in Bell Hotel in EPPING at the beginning of this month and stopping more than September 12th.

The judges also decided that the government could intervene in the case with a significant victory for the government.

Interior Minister Yette Cooper lawyers argued that the closure of the hotel would determine a ‘dangerous precedent’ to encourage similar cases by other councils.

Last week, the Supreme Court decided that all 138 asylum seekers in the hotel should be temporarily removed by legal proceedings brought by the EPPING Forest Region Council.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Interior and Bell holders asked the appeal court to reconsider the decision.

Lord Justice Bean, who disrupts the precautionary measure, lived with Lady Justice Nicola Davies and Lord Justice Cobb last week, Mr. Justice Eyre, who gave a precautionary measure last week, said that he made a series of mistakes that weakened this decision in the principle.

‘We are allowed to appeal to both Somani and (the Ministry of Interior) … We allow objections and put aside the precautionary measure brought on August 19, 2025.’

The judges also decided that the Ministry of Interior could intervene in the case and said that Mr. Justice Eyre made a ‘wrong’ decision to avoid allowing the part of the section.

Reading a summary of his decisions, Lord Justice Bean said that the Ministry of Interior had a ‘constitutional role related to public security’ and was influenced by issues.

Last night there were new protests outside Bell Hotel in EPPING.

Lord Justice Bean reads his decision in the afternoon

Speaking before the decision, Health Minister Stephen Kinnock claimed that many of a hotel cover wave triggered by the original Supreme Court decision could lead to homeless.

“If we close the hotels, it is not a question of when and how we close the hotels, and what we don’t want to have will have much worse results in terms of potentially poor effects on the streets, which have much worse results than we have now than we have now,” he said.

‘And I do not think that none of the communities that campaign for this hotel problem want to see it.

‘So what we do is to appeal this precautionary measure, because we adopt a pragmatic approach to how we want to manage the process, because not because we believe that the hotel should remain open.’

Essex police, yesterday at 17.00 outside the hotel, a group, a section of the original protest site before returning to a local school, he said.

An order gave civil servants the power to lift facial coatings or to direct facial arrests, while there was an area for the protest.

‘A small part of the group returned to the specified site came out of the region. Officers engaged in them and directed them to return to the identified protest area after a short time, ” he said.

‘The protest activity ended until 20.30.’

Essex police, the protesters’ hotel ‘hot storm’ allegedly rejected the allegations and said that this did not correctly reflect what was happening.

Today’s decision was made by the Court of Appeal (in the picture)

The protesters walked to Bell Hotel tonight, nodded the British flags and Union Jacks

Justice Eyre claimed that the authority claimed that Somani hotels have violated the rules of planning by using the bells for asylum seekers last week, the EPPING Forest Region Council (EFDC) decided to temporarily measure.

Yesterday, Edward Brown KC argued that the hotel is part of the ‘critical national infrastructure’ for the Ministry of Interior and that it is a ‘national interest’ to accommodate asylum seekers.

He said to the court: ‘There is a national interest to ensure the hosting of vulnerable individuals, that is, asylum seekers.’

Attorneys of the Interior Minister also warned that the decision could lead to anti -immigration protests. In written applications, they suggested that he carried out the risk of ‘a driving force for more violent protests’.

Mr. Brown Kc said that the judge decided that the case was only one of a planning dispute ‘and that he wanted the Court of Appeal to fulfill the temporary precautionary measures in the Bell Hotel case.

He said to the court: ‘The judge refused to allow the Minister of Foreign Affairs to participate in the proceedings, given the unique corporate competence and legal task.

Mr. Brown KC also said that during the written presentations, during the Supreme Court hearing on August 15, 138 asylum seekers at Bell Hotel with a total capacity of 152.

Interior Minister Yette Cooper objected to the Supreme Court Decision, who ordered the closure of Bell Hotel

In written shipments for the trial of yesterday, the end of the use of hotels for hosting asylum seekers ‘required a structured response’ he said.

Individual precautionary precautionary proposals, the closure of a site means that the capacity should be defined elsewhere, ” he added, ” he added.

He also hit councils because he used planning concerns as a tool to implement local political unrest on asylum accommodation.

He said: ‘This precautionary measure is actually encouraging other officials who want to remove the asylum places to ensure that the system is urgently moving to the court before the capacity is exhausted. This creates a chaotic and irregular approach. ‘

Bell Hotel was the focal point of a few protests and counter -protests in recent weeks after being accused of sexual harassment of a young girl last month.

Hadush Gerberslasie refused the crime and is on trial this week.

Another man living on the site, the Syrian national Muhammad Sharwarq was accused of seven crimes separately, and several other men were accused of irregularity except for the hotel.

The hotel had previously hosted asylum seekers from May 2020 to March 2021; From October 2022 to April 2024; And since April 2025.

Single men were also at the hotel between October 2022 and April 2024, but this year the Council took place for the first time in the early this month when the legal proceedings were carried out.