{"id":175758,"date":"2024-11-15T18:29:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/peterboroughs-dragonfly-hotel-inappropriate-for-asylum-seekers\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T18:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T18:29:33","slug":"peterboroughs-dragonfly-hotel-inappropriate-for-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/15\/peterboroughs-dragonfly-hotel-inappropriate-for-asylum-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"Peterborough’s Dragonfly Hotel ‘inappropriate’ for asylum seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Dragonfly Hotel in Peterborough is due to accommodate 146 asylum seekers<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Two MPs have labelled the government’s decision to house asylum seekers at a lakeside hotel as “inappropriate” and “disappointing”.<\/p>\n

The Home Office will house 146 asylum seekers at the Dragonfly Hotel in Thorpe Meadows, Peterborough, as first reported by the Peterborough Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two Labour MPs covering Peterborough, Andrew Pakes and Sam Carling, said they would keep “fighting” for clear information from government.<\/p>\n

The Home Office told the BBC it had inherited an asylum system under “unprecedented strain”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a joint statement, the MPs said: “We have already spoken to ministers to express our strong opposition to the plans.<\/p>\n

“We will keep fighting for clear information from the Home Office and to ensure the hotel is stood down as soon as possible.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The hotel, located off Thorpe Meadows, backs onto the city’s rowing lake <\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The hotel is located next to Peterborough’s rowing lake and borders Nene Park.<\/p>\n

Peterborough City Council’s Labour leader, Dennis Jones, claimed that the local authority was already housing “far more” than its share of asylum seekers, compared with anywhere else in England.<\/p>\n

Since the start of 2023, the council has bought at least 40 homes for refugees.<\/p>\n

Mr Jones said the hotel location had limited access to amenities and services.<\/p>\n

“Peterborough has a proud history of welcoming asylum seekers and others in need to the city, but in a planned and coordinated way. Our resources are already stretched \u2013 we are already well above our dispersed accommodation quota.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A spokesperson for the Home Office said there were thousands of people stuck in a blacklog of asylum claims, and said it was “delivering” a major uplift in its attempt to remove people with no right to be in the UK.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe remain absolutely committed to ending the use of hotels for asylum seekers and continue to identify a range of accommodation options to minimise their use,” they said.<\/p>\n

About 97,000 people claimed asylum<\/a> in the UK in the year ending June 2024.<\/p>\n

The number of applications has risen gradually since about 2010, and more dramatically since 2020.<\/p>\n

The Dragonfly Hotel, run by the Surya group, was contacted by the BBC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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