The Novotel Hotel in Long Eaton had been used for asylum seeker accommodation until June
More than 100 people required homelessness assistance from a Derbyshire council when a Government-run asylum seeker hotel was closed. Erewash Borough Council papers detail that when the Home Office’s asylum seeker accommodation in the Novotel Hotel in Bostocks Lane, Long Eaton closed in June it left dozens of people in need of assistance.
It is understood that Best Western facility remains operational, with the Home Office refusing to confirm or deny its use due to the violent “racially motivated” protests experienced in Southport and other towns and cities in the summer – which were linked to asylum seeker accommodation along with general immigration opposition. The Best Western is listed as “temporarily closed” on Google and its website does not allow bookings to be made.
This made it the borough’s second most common reason for requiring homelessness assistance, behind “end of private rented tenancy” and above “family no longer willing or able to accommodate . It wrote: “During the reporting period a significant increase in homelessness approaches was observed due to asylum seekers, granted leave to remain in the UK, leaving contingency accommodation provided by the Home Office.
“Although numbers of approaches to the council have increased, many asylum seekers leaving hotel accommodation in Erewash have been able to secure accommodation themselves without needing the council’s assistance.” A Home Office spokesperson said: “This government inherited an asylum system under unprecedented strain, with thousands stuck in a backlog without their claims processed.
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