Stradey Park Hotel

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Katrina Rowe
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Plaid Cymru has been clear that the Westminster Government’s hotels policy does not serve the needs of asylum seekers. Instead, we favour the dispersed model of accommodation provision as a more sustainable way of offering a longer-term solution for asylum seekers, especially in a county such as Carmarthenshire.
The Tory Government’s approach to the whole situation has been disgraceful:
There has been no local engagement or any form of consultation with local service providers to understand the impact this decision will have.
No additional resources have been allocated to address increased demands on local government services, already stripped to the bone due to a decade of Tory-imposed austerity measures.
95 staff members have lost their jobs amid a cost-of-living crisis and in a town where unemployment and poverty figures remain stubbornly high.
There are serious concerns about the impact it will have on the cohesion of the local community, service delivery – which include the availability of school places and access to local health services and GP services, and the risk and the suitability of the accommodation to the asylum seekers themselves.
We favour pursuing a more sustainable model of dispersal, which would allow asylum seekers to better integrate into our communities and allowing the Stradey Park Hotel to continue providing key events, such as weddings, and reinstating the jobs of former employees.
Carmarthenshire has also always been a welcoming authority and has a strong track record of supporting asylumn seekers and refugees. This has been exemplified in their support for many resettlement programmes, including Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. This has been achieved through a co-ordinated and planned approach via the dispersed model.
The plans, without consultation, to accommodate 241 asylum seekers across 77 rooms in the Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli is an example of policy not led by compassion, but by an inhumane approach to others’ situations. And, as the Welsh Refugee Council and Carmarthenshire Council have stated, it is not a suitable option.

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