Homeless people in Cornwall to be housed in bespoke CAR PARK portacabins

Homeless people in Cornwall will be housed in CAR PARK portacabins after council plans to slash £6m-a-year cost of hotels used for short-term urgent accommodation Eighteen temporary homes are being installed in the New County Hall car park Local authorities dealing with 1,000 residents currently without a place to live Construction has begun on the … Read more

Homeless former prisoners will be housed in bedsits on their release

Homeless prisoners will be housed in bedsits on their release in bid to keep them on the straight and narrow Homeless prisoners  will be housed in bedsits and hostels in a £20million plan Ministers say it could help prevent the public becoming victims of fresh crimes First time ex-offenders will have been housed in private-sector accommodation  … Read more

Inside Fowey Hall, a hotel housed in a Victorian mansion that was the inspiration for Toad Hall 

Welcome to Toad’s homely pile: Inside the handsome Cornish hotel housed in a Victorian mansion that was the inspiration for Toad Hall Fowey Hall sits above the Fowey estuary on the Cornish Riviera and has ‘stunning vistas’, writes Vicki Reeve The usual word for a 36-bedroom pile like this is ‘imposing’, but the hotel has … Read more

Numbers of migrants housed full-board in hotels rockets NINEFOLD costing millions

Numbers of migrants housed full-board in hotels rockets NINEFOLD costing taxpayers tens of millions of pounds a year amid record number of Channel crossings Asylum seekers are being put up in 100 hotels across the UK with full board A surge from 1,200 in March was caused by pandemic and record crossings  Nearly £400million is … Read more

Man, 50, is arrested during protests at military base where 250 Channel migrants are being housed

 A 50-year-old man has been arrested during protests at military base in west Wales, where up to 250 Channel migrants are  The man, who has not been named but is not from the area, is being held on suspicion of public order offences during a second day of protesting outside the camp in the coastal village … Read more