A Great Yarmouth hotel has stopped housing asylum seekers after its contract was terminated by the Home Office.

It has been confirmed that refugees who were living at The Hotel Victoria, just off the seafront on King's Road, had all been relocated by Thursday, February 29, and the site is now empty.

In 2022, news broke that the hotel was housing or would be housing up to 50 asylum seekers.

Eastern Daily Press: Great Yarmouth MP Brandon Lewis has welcomed the termination of a contract for housing asylum seekers at a hotel in the town.Great Yarmouth MP Brandon Lewis has welcomed the termination of a contract for housing asylum seekers at a hotel in the town. (Image: PA Media)

The announcement that the contract at Hotel Victoria has ended was welcomed by the town's MP Sir Brandon Lewis.

He said: “I have always been clear that Great Yarmouth Hotels should be used by tourists, not by people who cross our borders illegally, and I fully supported the strong efforts by the Conservative-led Great Yarmouth Borough Council in their efforts regarding this matter.

"I am delighted that we have had formal confirmation that the contract at the Victoria has now ended, and I will continue to push for the decisive actions required to ensure that no hotel in Great Yarmouth is used in this manner again.”

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Last May, following concerns that other Great Yarmouth hotels would be housing asylum seekers, the borough council sought and won an injunction preventing further moves to do so.

The injunction covered 59 hotels and sought to preserve the tourism character of the town.

The council’s Local Plan contains a strategy for protecting and enhancing an area formally designated as ’the seafront‘ in the town.

Two other sites, the Villa Rose Hotel, on Prince's Road, and the Embassy Hotel, on Camperdown, had also been lined up to take more refugees.

Concerns have been raised that local authorities will now bear the brunt of the cost of housing asylum seekers.