Stradey Park Hotel: Llanelli councillor's warning over asylum system

The UK authorities has "lost control" of the asylum system, a councillor has warned.

On Friday, Carmarthenshire assembly failed successful a High Court bid to halt Stradey Park Hotel, successful Llanelli, being utilized to location up to 241 asylum seekers.

According to a councillor, the Home Office has been "completely unable" to archer locals what is happening.

The Home Office said the plans were indispensable and that the asylum strategy was nether "incredible" strain.

A erstwhile contention equality commissioner said much enactment needs to beryllium done with section radical to allay "irritational fears" and "address morganatic ones".

Llanelli MP Dame Nia Griffith called for much planetary enactment to find "solutions that volition last".

"My plea would beryllium with the UK authorities to get a grip connected an asylum system, which they person intelligibly mislaid the grip of," councillor Martyn Palfreman told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.

"In presumption of what happens adjacent and the asylum seekers accomplishment successful Llanelli, the honorable reply is I don't know."

"We've been told antecedently they volition beryllium arriving adjacent week, we don't cognize immoderate much details successful presumption of the creation of the radical that volition beryllium arriving oregon precisely erstwhile they volition beryllium arriving," added Mr Palfreman.

The Labour councillor for the Hengoed ward of Llanelli added that his "real concern" is that the asylum seekers themselves volition person choler directed towards them, which helium said helium hopes "doesn't happen".

Dame Nia Griffith, MP for Lanelli, said she was precise "very disappointed" with the result of Friday's hearing.

"I deliberation it's peculiarly upsetting for the residents who unrecorded intimately to the edifice and whilst radical person a close to their sentiment I would really beg them to beryllium precise considerate," she said.

"We request to enactment unneurotic with different countries to find solutions that volition last... determination has to beryllium a truly concerted effort to enactment internationally with partners truthful determination are due agreements."

Following Friday's hearing, assembly person Darren Price said helium was "disappointed" and that the authorization would see the judge's reasons connected Monday.

Aled Edwards, the erstwhile commissioner for radical equality successful Wales, said a speech was needed with radical successful the assemblage to allay "irrational fears" and "address morganatic ones".

"If we walk the clip explaining to radical what people's backgrounds are, what they tin connection us, what they tin bring us... I deliberation it could go overmuch better," helium said.

"But determination is simply a toxicity to the statement astir the globe that is not good."

The Home Office said the fig of radical arriving successful the UK successful request of accommodation had reached grounds levels.

"The Home Office is committed to making each effort to trim edifice usage and bounds the load connected the taxpayer," a spokesperson said.