Ensure Home Office needs planning permission for all hotel asylum accommodation

The Home Office has a duty to house asylum seekers who appear to be destitute. It can repurpose hotels for asylum accommodation if this does not represent a material change of use to a building or land. We think this undermines planning law and public safety. We want Parliament to require that any and all uses of hotels for asylum accommodation is treated as a material change of use needing planning permission and consultation with local councils, so communities have a voice and safety standards are upheld.