Asylum seekers to leave Park Hotel in Diss

Its decision comes in the wake of South Norfolk Council refusing to accept the Home Office’s attempt to remove families from the hotel and replace them with single male asylum seekers and the hotel owners’ threat to close the hotel.

South Norfolk Council Leader, Daniel Elmer said:

The Home Office thought it could just impose this change and that we would accept it. But there is a right way of doing things and a wrong way and the decision by the Home Office was just plain wrong. The Council had to make a stand to support the women and children and our local community and that’s exactly what we did.”

Although I welcome the decision, in reality it does mean that the women and children who we fought so hard to protect will now be moved elsewhere, and that is a shame.

South Norfolk, and Diss in particular has always opened its arms to people in need and that’s something that should make us all very proud.