Officials from the Epping Forest District Council asked a judge to issue an order to temporarily block migrants from being accommodated at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, due to “unprecedented levels of protest and disruption” over asylum-seeker accommodation.

Asylum seekers must be moved out of the hotel by 16:00 BST on 12 September, the judge ruled. All 80 rooms at the hotel are seemingly occupied and, as of last month, it was home to about 140 men. The Home Office had warned the decision would "substantially impact" its ability to house asylum seekers in hotels across the UK.

The British government's migration strategy was upended after a court allowed a challenge by a London-area council seeking to evict asylum seekers from a hotel.