Council uses planning powers to stop asylum seekers being housed in third city hotel

[dutchman]

Coventry's 'good will is being taken advantage of'



COVENTRY City Council says it has intervened to stop the use of a Keresley hotel as asylum seeker accommodation.

The Royal Court Hotel, owned by Britannia Hotels, was set to accommodate a group of asylum seekers put up by Home Office contractors.

A senior councillor said the city’s ‘good will is being take advantage of,’ as people awaiting asylum decisions are already hosted at other hotels in the city.

One of them is the Coventry Hill hotel, also run by Britannia.

Councillor Abdul Salam Khan, Deputy Leader of Coventry City Council and whose portfolio covers enforcement, said:

“The decision to use our legal planning powers to stop the arrival of asylum seekers to the Royal Court Hotel was not taken lightly but we believe we were left with no alternative.

“This decision to use the hotel as a hostel was taken with no consultation with the city council and when we found out and objected, our views were ignored.

“The Home Office’s contractors already use two city hotels to provide temporary accommodation and we believe that being made to have more is disproportionate for a city our size.

“Specialist health services are already struggling to support and manage the demand from those in existing hotels and further arrivals will require the commissioning of additional health provision, for which the source of funding is unclear.

“This has been a difficult decision, but we believe it is the right one.

“Coventry is justly proud of its status of being an open and diverse city that promotes peace and reconciliation. Coventry is a City of Sanctuary and has been a voluntary asylum dispersal city since 1999. Although this has been, and remains, the right thing to do we have done so when other towns and cities have refused to.

“But it appears that Coventry’s good will is being taken advantage of with no say in the increasing numbers being sent to the city who come with little or no funding and support which is not in their interests or ours.

“All we are trying to ensure is a fair deal for the city and the service users at a time when we need all of the support we can to manage the massive challenge of coronavirus.”

[rebbonk]

Not enough money in it?

[Melisandre]

Was nt it Coventry City Council had large photos on railings of immigrants lining the area near the Train Station with slogans welcoming them to Coventry for the City of culture shown in the Coventry Telegraph.
My motto is give them an inch they will take a mile.

How are we going to cope with services infrastructure etc then with all the houses being built here including the ones on the Tamworth Rd and area where the Royal Court is which from a very reliable source are being built for immigrants in that area .
Most houses on the Tamworth Rd are up for sale or sold off where most of our big business owners live or lived but now have moved out because of this taking their business's with them.
I have noticed its Labour councils in England taking in these the North West being hit the hardest . Even in Leicester Peti Patel who wants to change immigration was nt informed these were put up in her constituency stated by Mike Graham on Talk Sport .

[rebbonk]

I will also say that I believe most of them to be economic migrants, not asylum seekers. Add in the fact that most will have entered the country illegally and you start to question a lot more about their intentions.

Of course, I'm racist or any other 'ist that the left wish to hurl my way, but it'll do no good sinking the lifeboat!

[Melisandre]

Until proven they are illegal immigrants until proven other wise imo Rebbonk even Mike Graham stated they really are illeagal immigrants.

Yes sad but true we are all labeled racist if we dont agree and follow with what the left want therefore this is known as a dictatorship.

[rebbonk]

What is so bad about France (or the other countries that they have travelled through) that they won't claim asylum there? Why do they want to come to this cold, damp, small island?

I think we all know why. - Don't say it out loud though as there are elements in society that will call you horrible nasty names! The very same elements that will report you to the authorities if you use horrible nasty words on facebook!

[Melisandre]

Yes we all know a few of the reason s dont we Rebbonk but how many of these kind in other EU countrys are in their governments top jobs like the thread of Lloyds on here also work in jobs like our civil service immigration etc they will always be true to their own country and way of living from which they derive our government are s if they think any different . our own government is our biggest enemy not the immigrants.

To me our governments are doing a fantastic job of out breeding the British people as planned from the end of wwii with the Coudenhove-Kalergi plan.


Face book is one of the biggest spy machines also google also find your heritage dna site who own these are all related to each other all gathering our information.

[rebbonk]

... our own government is our biggest enemy...

Spot on!

[Melisandre]

I wonder how this will work with economic migrants and illegal immigrants.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJByCXRr/

[dutchman]

Home Office accused of being 'beyond reckless' over move of asylum seekers with Covid-19



Coventry City Council has accused the Home Office and its contractors of being “beyond reckless” in the way they handled an outbreak of Covid-19 among asylum seekers.

Council leader Cllr George Duggins joined five other Midlands local authorities in criticising the move of dozens of migrants more than 120 miles at a time when an enforcement order stated that they should remain in self-isolation following the cases at their accommodation.

Despite this, 40 asylum seekers were moved from Edgbaston to west London and, of that number, at least nine were found to have Covid-19, according to The Guardian.

Coventry has a vested interest in the arrangements because two hotels in the city are being used to accommodate hundreds of people, with the council saying it does not have the capacity to adequately accept “disproportionate” numbers “with little or no funding” from the Government.

In the letter sent to Home Secretary Priti Patel, the councils accuse the Home Office and Serco of being “beyond reckless” in their response to the outbreak in Birmingham.

Cllr Duggins and Birmingham City Council leader, Cllr Ian Ward, are among the signatories to the complaint, stating that “adequate measures were not put in place to prevent an outbreak” at the Edgbaston accommodation, where at least 26 people had tested positive.