The Council has become aware that the Government’s hostel for migrant asylum seekers in the TLK building in St Mary Cray has been attracting negative comment on social media.
This follows the granting recently of a temporary injunction, concerning the use of a hotel in Epping.
With this in mind, Bromley Council wishes to put on record the facts surrounding this Central Government funded hostel in St Mary Cray as the Council has been advised by both the Government as well as the management at TLK itself.
The hostel has been in situ at the TLK building for two years and according to the Government’s latest statistics, updated weekly, the hostel is not occupied by ‘single young men’, as was the case in Epping, and is being asserted by some locally.
A Council Spokesperson said: “ Our first hand advice remains that the hostel is currently occupied by children, women and families only in temporary accommodation, awaiting a decision from the Government concerning their future immigration status at which point they will leave.
"Also, that there are no current police investigations in relation to residents of the TLK apartments taking place, contrary to other reports circulating.
“Mindful of the recent provisional legal decision from Epping, the Council is, of course, monitoring the situation and awaiting the eventual outcome of the reported appeal. We will consider legal action of our own, were the Government ever minded to change the cohort residing within the hostel from children, women and families to single young men.”
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