BBC News, Essex
PA mediaA Zilla Parishad has applied for an interim High Court prohibition to stop migrants living in a hotel.
Hundreds of people have performed outside the Bell Hotel in Essex in recent months, opposing it, it is used for shelter seekers.
The Epping Forest District Council stated that “there was a clear risk of community stress”.
Its conservative leader Chris Whitbred said: “We should not take this fight to the High Court, but we have no choice. It is now dependent on the judge.”
He pointed to the “unprecedented level of protest and disintegration” near the hotel since last month.
The home office said: “It would be unfair to comment while continuing legal proceedings.”
The council first filed an application and asked that it is effective in the event of being effective within 14 days.
It is also “demanding an announcement” that the hotel’s use for the purposes of adjusting asylum seekers is “not the same as the hotel” and hence the plan is not allowed under the rules.
A local authority spokesperson said, as far as it was known, there was no criminal record check for the persons kept there and there were five schools and a residential care house in the surrounding area.
The spokesperson said, “The current situation cannot go further. If the Bell Hotel was a nightclub, we could close it long ago.”
“Use by the home office of the campus for shelter seekers risk already a high level of community stresses and irreparable damage to the local community.”
Recently protests accused the arrest of a resident in the hotel, later sexual harassment, harassment and abetment of a girl to engage in sexual activity.
Hadush Kebatu, a 41 -year -old Ethiopia, denied crimes and is in custody.
Twenty -eight people have been arrested in connection with the disorder in the hotel, and 16 of them have been charged.
Police officials said they were beaten up and had vehicles Damaged during one of protests,
Counter protesters of stand up to racism have also been in the hotel.
Refugee Charity Care4calais, which supports shelter seekers in the hotel, said some were abandoned Scared of going out,
The house office says that it has reduced the number of 400 asylum hotels in summer of 2023, which has increased to 210.
