Orthodox leaders Kemi Badenoch Tory-controlled councils are encouraged to consider starting legal challenges against the use of hotels for shelter seekers in their areas.
Badenoch said that the Epting Forest District Council “had won for the local people”, after a High Court’s decision, after blocking a hotel from housing shelters.
In a letter to the leaders of the Conservative Council, Badenoch wrote “We return you to take equal action to protect your community … if your legal advice supports it”.
A labor spokesperson said that Badenoch’s letter was “desperate and hypocritical nonsense from the architects of the broken refuge system”.
Labor spokesperson said under Toryse, “The number of asylum hotels in use increased as 400”.
The spokesperson said, “Now there are half and now there are 20,000 less refuge in the hotel, which are at his peak under the Tory.”
It comes after The High Court on Monday gave a temporary prohibition to Conservative-controlled EPPIPING Council To prevent migrants from adjusting to the Bell Hotel in Essex.
The court ruled that about 140 asylum seekers should be taken out of the hotel by 12 September, giving the government a limited time to find alternative houses.
Councils across England are considering similar legal challenges, as the ministers are preparing contingent plans for the housing shelters set to remove the Bell from the hotel.
Historically, the hotel is used only in short -term emergency situations to asylum seekers when other houses were unavailable.
But the use of the hotel during the Kovid -19 epidemic used to grow rapidly, killing the peak of 56,042 in 2023 when he was in the conservative government.
The Labor Government has promised to abolish the use of migrant hotels by 2029, cutting small boat crossings and intensifying decisions on asylum claims.
According to home office data, 32,345 asylum seekers were kept in the hotel at the end of March, below 15% from the end of December.
In recent years, other councils have taken legal action in an attempt to close asylum hotels in their areas, but in previous cases judges have refused to intervene.
The Epting Forest District Council, run by Conservative, successfully argued that its case was different as the hotel had become a security risk, as well as a violation of the plan law to become a common hotel.
The judge ruled in favor of the council, which made the matter “evidence of evidence” related to protests around the hotel, causing violence and arrests.
For other councils, they will have to show evidence of the High Court of local damage to follow the suit.
On Wednesday, several councils, including some runs by Labor, said they were assessing their legal options.
In his letter, Badenoch told the Tory Council leaders that they want to take formal advice from planning officers on other planning enforcement options available to your council in relation to the change of unauthorized development or use “.
Curina Gandar, a Coreviary leader of the Bruxborn Council, said she was “expecting the same path” while the Epping Forest District Council while filing a legal challenge to a refuge hotel in her area “.
Reform UK leader Nigel Faraj has said that all the 12 councils controlled by his party will “do everything in their power to follow the leadership of EPING”.
The leader of the Reform UK -led West Northamptonshire Council said that he was “considering the implication of this decision to understand any equality and differences and actively looking at the options available to us”.
Labor-controlled Tamworth Council leader Carol Dean said that his authority had earlier decided against legal action, but now “carefully assessing” was doing what the decision for the region could mean.
He said that it was a “potentially important legal example”.
If successful, further legal challenges have the ability to create more pressure on the government to find alternative housing options for migrants.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Filp said that shelters were taken out of the hotel, they should not be kept in other hotels, flats or house-shares.
In a letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, He called for using alternative housing such as former military sites or barge.
Home Office Minister Dan Jarvis told the BBC that the government was “looking at the contingent options” for the accommodation going out of Bell Hotel but did not give any special example.
“There is a possibility of a series of various arrangements in different parts of the country,” Jarvis said.
In June, ministers said that the government was buying tower blocks and alumni housing, externally for home migrants.
