THE Home Office’s retreat of its plans to use a hotel to accommodate refugees in Wales was called “enormously problematic” by anti-racist campaigners today.

The Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli was due to house up to 241 people — a move that was opposed by the Carmarthenshire County Council and saw protests by far-right groups.

The council wrote to the Home Office last week, urging the government to withdraw its plans and said it was concerned about community tensions following an arson attack on the hotel and protests.