Neighbours fear redevelopment plans for a local hotel could see it converted into a 42-bed house in multiple occupation (HMO) housing asylum seekers.
Developers want to turn the three-star venue in Maidstone, Kent, into a complex of ‘co-living’ studio apartments accommodating up to 65 residents.
This form of accommodation gives each resident a private room or studio, while communal facilities are shared.
But with the hotel’s former owner having previously been approached about accommodating asylum seekers at the site, locals fear it could ultimately be converted into an HMO for asylum seekers.
Residents living nearby say they are ‘petrified’ for the safety of their
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