Epping Council’s legal bill over asylum hotel revealed
News / Thu 11th Dec 2025 at 08:28am
A COUNCIL’S High Court action to attempt to stop asylum seekers from living at an Essex hotel has cost £277,425 so far, the BBC has learned.
Epping Forest District Council won an interim injunction to close The Bell Hotel in Epping to migrants in August, but it was overturned by the Court of Appeal.
The council lost its most recent High Court challenge and is looking to appeal against that decision.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwkqqxqnp9o
David Forman
2025-12-11 08:55:06
Paragraph 14 of Justice Mould's November 11 judgement states the current contract to house asylum seekers ends 24 March 2026. I'm sure that with a bit of imagination and negotiation with the Home Office that this could have been resolved. See https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Epping-Forest-DC-v-Somani-Hotels.pdf
David Forman
2025-12-11 09:15:40
It's worth noting that paragraph 14 States Corporate Travel Management (North) Limited manages the asylum accommodation at Bell Hotel. Checking Companies House I discovered that there is an ultimate parent company exercising control called Corporate Travel Management Limited based in Brisbane Australia. Profits flowing out of the country. Shows how the Tories formulated these asylum accommodation contracts with Serco, Mears and Clearsprings in 2018 without checking whether sub-contractors controlled by overseas parent companies would profit from this.
David Forman
2025-12-11 09:44:51
A report by Liberty Investigates in July 2024 and confirmed by the Guardian stated: "The Home Office has also been urged to provide clarity about the circumstances surrounding a £213,580 settlement Clearsprings reached with HMRC in 2015/16 following an inquiry into the company’s tax affairs. It was awarded its latest asylum seeker contracts in 2019, in a deal anticipated at the time to be worth £1bn over 10 years – though this would quickly prove an underestimate." See https://libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/hmrc-urged-to-investigate-asylum-hotel-firm-over-payments-to-apparent-offshore-company/
Fed up pensioner mark 2
2025-12-11 14:50:47
That's the uni party's fault over 28 years we've has mass immigration with large amounts of illegal immigration to boot,I agree with Trump weak leaders in this country have ruined the UK for years to come.
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