JUDGMENTS IN THE NEWS
Epping Forest District Council v Somani Hotels Ltd
[2025] EWHC 2937 (KB)
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/2025/2937.html

(Re Planning Control and Enforcement - Hotel Accommodation for Asylum Seekers)

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New report blows apart the “luxury asylum hotel” myth.

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https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/11/11/rats-malnutrition-and-overcrowding-not-luxury-are-common-at-asylum-hotels/

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Asylum hotels and mental health
All in the Mind

More than 32,000 asylum seekers are being housed in hotels in the UK, the latest figures show.

There's been intense political debate in recent weeks focused on the cost – both financially for the government and for local communities.

But what about the cost to the mental health of those living in the hotels?

Today we’re going to hear from an asylum seeker who spent more than a year in a hotel in London, and we’ll examine the evidence for the impact on people’s mental health.

Dr Peter Olusoga, senior lecturer in psychology at Sheffield Hallam University, joins us in the studio with the latest research, including a study that raises the prospect of using a common acne drug to cut risk of schizophrenia and new evidence on the psychology of losing.

And what if we could mentally reframe winter to make it more enjoyable? We get some tips from clinical psychologist Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald.

Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producer: Gerry Holt
Content editor: Ilan Goodman
Production coordinator: Jana Holesworth
Studio engineer: Tim Heffer

Details of organisations offering support with mental health, or feelings of despair, are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.

28 minutes

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m035

"Hotels made a profit of £380m over five years"

Gotta rip off refugees, haven't you, it's the White thing to do...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/10/rats-overcrowding-malnutrition-uk-asylum-hotels-report

#AsylumSeekers #AsylumHotels #RefugeesWelcome #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS

YouTubers are earning up to £20,000 a month by making provocative videos that have targeted a Norfolk hotel used to house asylum seekers.

Hotels up and down the country are regularly targeted by content creators known as ‘auditors’. One such site is the Brook Hotel in Bowthorpe, which has racked up hundreds of thousands of views in monetised streams.

#FarRight #AsylumHotels

Lucrative hate: YouTubers target migrant hotels for clicks
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/lucrative-hate-youtubers-target-migrant-hotels-for-clicks/