Clacton's main hotel will carry on housing asylum seekers into the New Year - despite an order to move them out.
The Royal Hotel has been told by Tendring Council it should not accommodate refugees.
It lost an appeal against that decision and it was thought the asylum seekers would leave at about Christmas time.
But The Estuarys, which runs the hotel, has said it will seek leave to appeal to the High Court against that defeat.
The asylum seekers moved in more than a year ago and there are currently between 70 to 80 at the Royal.
By Mark Beales
Reporter's e-mail: mark_beales@thisisessex.co.uk
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