The public has been assured by the owner of Skegness' former town hall that his plans to turn the building into a hotel will not lead to it being used to house asylum seekers. Taj Bola bought the 97 year old building in 2022 for £600,000 and hopes to turn it into a 57-bed hotel.
This would see the majority of existing offices converted into a mix of bedrooms, which would include five on the Grade II listed building's lower ground floor, 16 on the upper ground floor, 20 on the first and 16 on the second floor. However, over the past six months some of the hotels in the town have been used to house people claiming asylum.
This comes after the government continues to look for locations to house people, including including RAF Scampton and disused cruise ships. Mr Bola, who also owns the Royal Hotel in Skegness, explained that people have been asking him f the new hotel would be housing refugees reports Lincolnshire Live.
