Allowing a ban on housing asylum seekers at a protest-hit hotel risks more disorder and could have a “serious impact” on the UK’s ability to house migrants, the Home Office has claimed.
The government has applied to be allowed to appeal an interim High Court injunction which stops asylum seekers being housed at The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. Epping Forest District Council won the temporary ban after a series of violent anti-migrant protests resulted in multiple arrests and saw several police officers injured.
