Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Asylum seekers will be permitted to stay at hotel in Essex following a British high court ruling against a local council to remove them.
The Bell Hotel in Epping Forest, less than 20 miles northeast of London, has housed roughly 140 migrants in the process of seeking British asylum. But the local Epping Forest District Council sought to block their temporarily living conditions after a 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted and a man living in the hotel accused of the attack.
On Tuesday, Justice Tim Mould dismissed the council's claims and ruled that an injunction was "not an appropriate means of enforcing planning control."
Epping Forest's councillors argued the Bell Hotel owner flouted local planning and zoning rules.
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