Over recent weeks, the interim injunction to halt the housing of asylum seekers at the Bell hotel in Epping has thrown government plans into crisis. The Home Office has now successfully appealed this ...

Epping Forest District Council leader Chris Whitbread, speaking outside the Royal Court of Justice in London last month A council seeking to stop an Epping hotel from housing asylum seekers has lost a ...

The Epping Forest District Council has lost a legal attempt to remove asylum seekers from the Bell Hotel, citing issues of planning permission and public safety concerns following an alleged sexual ...

The Home Office and the owner of the Bell Hotel in Epping have won a legal appeal that means the building can remain open as an accommodation for asylum seekers. Three senior judges have ruled that ...

Epping Forest District Council has asked for permission to take its case against a hotel housing asylum seekers to the Supreme Court. Thousands of people have protested outside The Bell Hotel in ...

An injunction temporarily blocking asylum seekers from being housed at an Essex hotel could spark further protests, the Court of Appeal has been told. Lawyers for the Home Office and The Bell Hotel in ...

The Bell Hotel has been at the centre of intense protests and counter-protests over recent weeks [PA Media] An injunction that would temporarily block asylum seekers from being housed at an Essex ...

Epping Forest District Council has voted unanimously to urge the government to shut down a hotel housing asylum seekers, after days of protests. Since demonstrations – some of them violent – began ...

Hotel has been at centre of protests since migrants moved in THREE top judges will decide today whether to overturn a temporary injunction on booting migrants out of an Epping hotel. The Bell Hotel in ...

Council chiefs have launched a new offensive in the battle to close a controversial migrant hotel in Essex. Epping Forest District Council is seeking to take its case to the Supreme Court as the ...

Jonathan Darling has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council. He is affiliated with the No Accommodation Network as a trustee. Over recent weeks, the interim injunction to halt ...