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Case update: Stoke-on-Trent City Council, the Home Office and asylum seekers
While conditions at Manston processing centre were grabbing headlines, less was said about the planning challenge brought by local councils wanting to prevent local hotels being used as temporary accommodation by asylum seekers. Saira Kabir Sheikh KC considers the case An injunction under s187B is a powerful and useful tool for a local planning authority. …