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Metropole Hotel 'wholly inadequate' to house refugees but has been their home for three years instead of three months

Webb believes more appropriate accommodation than the hotel chain named worst in the UK for 11 consecutive years should be found

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Oct 16, 2024
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Metropole Hotel

by Shelagh Parkinson, first published on 17 September 2024

Blackpool South MP Chris Webb has called for an end to the use of the resort’s Metropole Hotel as accommodation for asylum-seekers.

The housing of families in the seafront hotel – the only one in Blackpool to be sited on the beach side of the tram tracks – has proved controversial s…

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