A council says that the home office has now decided not to use a hotel in Norfolk for housing shelter seekers.
Decision at Park Hotel in DIS Protests protest Last month, officials said that they wanted to send single men to the campus, presently providing housing for women and children seeking shelter.
The South Norfolk Council, run by Conservative, who opposed the move, said it was reported by the Home Office on Friday afternoon that the building would no longer be used as Sharan Hotel.
Home office has been contacted for comment.
The Epting Forest District Council was given a temporary prohibition by the High Court to block Lodge at Bell Hotel in Eating.
This inspired other councils to say that they were also thinking of taking legal action.
There is no reason for the decision not to use the park hotel, but the news was welcomed by the council leader Daniel Elmer.
“The Home Office thought it could only implement this change and we would accept it,” he said.
“But there is a right way to do things and the decision by the home office was just plain wrong.”
The council had told the home office that taking out women and children and changing them with single men would bother the local people and “a community of refugees who are already integrated very well in the local area”.
Elmer made it clear that he would oppose the plans and take legal action against the house office if necessary, while the hotel owners said they would stop it instead of accepting single men.
Elmer said: “Although I welcome this decision, in fact it means that women and children we had worked so hard to save will be taken elsewhere now, and it is a matter of shame.
“South Norfolk, and especially dishes, have always opened their arms for people needy people and this is something that we should very proud of.”
New figures show that 32,059 asylum seekers in UK hotels at the end of June, 8%at the same point 12 months ago.
However, compared to a year ago, the total is slightly below in the previous quarter – and well down to the peak of 56,042 in September 2023.
Prior to this, Home Secretary Yett Cooper Announced that the government had to appeal against Epping Prohibition,
He said that all these asylums were committed to closing the hotels, but it needs to be “properly managed”.
“We have an extended period of uncertainty on the future of the hotel, so at least now we have clarity,” said Green Party MP Adrian Ramsay said in a statement.
Ramsay, who is the co-leader of the party, said: “I feel for the families who are living in the hotel who are caught in the middle of the arguments about the future of the hotel.
“I think there is a result of the weeks of uncertainty for families as a result of a poor scheme from the house office and I hope they will now be given proper support and information.”
