{"id":4033,"date":"2025-08-21T01:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2025-08-21T01:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T01:38:15","slug":"thirteen-councils-to-take-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4033","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen councils to take action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Councils Move to Ban Asylum Hotels After Court Ruling<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a surprise High Court ruling in favor of Epping Forest District Council, thirteen councils plan to stop the use of hotels for housing asylum seekers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court granted Epping a temporary injunction, allowing it to evict asylum seekers from local hotels. The Home Office warned the move could \u201cinterfere\u201d with its legal duties, while hotel owners argued it sets a \u201cdangerous precedent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case comes amid rising tensions and protests in Epping over asylum housing. Nigel Farage responded by saying all Reform UK-led councils will do \u201ceverything in their power\u201d to block asylum hotels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Conservative-run councils are now joining the effort, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Derbyshire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nottinghamshire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>West and North Northamptonshire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lincolnshire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Broxbourne<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Staffordshire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Durham<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hull &amp; East Yorkshire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Greater Lincolnshire<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doncaster<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This ruling could influence how local governments manage asylum accommodation nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joe.co.uk\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2227268671-scaled.jpg?height=350&amp;width=700&amp;cropped\" alt=\"\" title=\"Thirteen councils to take action to remove asylum seekers from hotels\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Councils Move to Ban Asylum Hotels After Court Ruling Following a surprise High Court ruling in favor of Epping Forest District Council, thirteen councils plan to stop the use of hotels for housing asylum seekers. The court granted Epping a temporary injunction, allowing it to evict asylum seekers from local hotels. The Home Office warned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4035,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions\/4035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}