UK council ‘pursuing legal action’ over 4-star London migrant hotel | UK | News

A council is “legal action” against the home office after being transformed into a four -star hotel in London with only “three -day notification”. The immigrants moved to Britannia international hotel in Canary Wharf at the beginning of August after being accused of sexual assault after a female student days after coming to England after the Ethiopa came to England. The Tower Hamlets Council confirmed that they were aware of the government’s decision to use the hotel as a temporary immigrant accommodation, but a parliamentary member of the local authority is “continuing legal proceedings” on the change of use.

Conservative Assembly Member Peter Gold, “July 18 to the council, the hotel will be a hostel for the recently arrived hostels were reported only three days.” He said. “Aside from the inhabitants of the Council, there was no contact or advice on the council. This required a change of use unattended. Residents raised it over and over again and we are happy that the council continued this legally.”

The Council spokesman confirmed that a planning violation notification (PCN) against the government and the hotel operator was requested and requested information about the violation of planning controls that may be used to inform more legal procedures.

“The Council can only act on planning issues if a planning application is made or a complaint is made.” They said. “In this case, a complaint has been presented and is now being investigated in line with our established procedures. A PCN was given as part of the investigation. We are also looking for assurance from the hotel operator and the government.”

With the date of compliance with August 8, in August, Tower Hamlets’s planning record was not confirmed whether the execution declaration against Clearsprings and Britannia Hotel Group, the asylum hotel provider of the home office, has not confirmed whether the relevant parties complied with the PCN before the deadline.

Other Councils in the UK are also coming to progress with legal difficulties in the use of hotels for the accommodation seeking asylum. Reports show that at least 13 councils plan to take legal action despite the overthrow of a temporary precautionary measure that prevents the use of Bell Hotel, which was caused by immigrants last month.

The EPPING Forest Region Council decided to take a temporary precautionary measure that prevented 138 asylum seekers from staying in a three -star hotel in August, but only weeks later it was overthrown by the Court of Appeal. A new legal difficulty will be felt on October 15th.

According to home office data, the number of asylum seekers in hotels increased to 32.059 until June and increased by 14% compared to the previous year with 111,000 asylum applications made in the same period.

A Government Spokesman said: olarak As part of our commitment to closing all shelter hotels, we look at a number of more suitable sites, including unused accommodation, industrial and old military sites to reduce the impact on communities.

“To accelerate this, we work through local authorities, property partners and the government. However, security will always be the most important priority and any asylum settlement should be subjected to strict inspections first. We will determine more details in time.”

For a comment, Britannia Hotel Group was contacted.