Councillors in Epping Forest have voted unanimously to call on the Government to ‘immediately and permanently' close a hotel to asylum seekers after a series of violent protests at the site.
At a meeting of Conservative-controlled Epping Forest DC, leader Chris Whitbread warned that residents' ‘peaceful protests are being infiltrated by those on the extremes of politics' and that the council ‘will be working tirelessly to get the Government to listen and close' the hotel for asylum accommodation.
