An illegal homeless encampment has sprung up at a coastal beauty spot in Bournemouth - just 200 metres away from a taxpayer-funded migrant hotel.
Beach hut tenants have complained about the new settlement which appeared in a clearing halfway up the town's famous 100ft sloping cliffs.
The camp contains a large parasol, barbecue and artificial grass to walk on and is visible to hundreds of walkers who use the promenade every day.
It is in a prime location directly above a row of sought-after beach huts which tenants pay £2,000 a year to rent.
The arrival of the eyesore has prompted some locals to hit out at funding of a Britannia migrant hotel nearby which houses over 100 asylum seekers while homeless people 'fall on hard times'.
The new encampment on Bournemouth's cliffs marks the second time this year the clearing on East Cliff has been targeted by fly campers.
On that occasion beach hut tenants below it complained of the unsightly mess that attracted rats.
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council eventually cleared the site after several weeks.
The encampment (pictured, centre) above four beach huts has triggered complaints from local residents
It is in a prime location directly above a row of sought-after beach huts which tenants pay £2,000 a year to rent
Residents previously gathered outside the Britannia Hotel with St George's flags and signs reading 'Illegal criminals out' and 'stop the boats'
The latest eyesore camp goes against the authority's stance on fly camping in the area of the seafront.
Overnight camping is banned as it competes against the local hotels and guest houses.
Stuart Henderson, 52, who has a beach hut within yards of the new encampment which is also close to the zig-zag cliff path said: 'We pay a lot of money for the beach hut but it is getting very unsavoury down there.
'I should be able to sit outside my beach hut without having to look at an eyesore.
'It's not a good look. Visitors coming out of hotels at the top of the cliff who walk down the zig zag path are going to take one look at that and say 'I'm not coming here again.'
'This is the second camp there we have had this year. The council doesn't seem to solve the problem, they move it on and then it comes back.
'Whoever is in there has fallen on hard times and is homeless. Yet we can afford to spend a fortune putting people up in a hotel just a few yards away for free but we can't sort out the homeless problem.'
Mr Henderson's comments come as the Britannia migrant hotel was the subject of protest over the summer as a wave of discontent swept across Britain in response to the Home Office's taxpayer-funded hotels.
A wave of discontent swept across Britain over the taxpayer-funded hotels, facilitated by the Home Office, this summer
Protests at asylum hotels spread to Bournemouth, Norwich and Portsmouth
Residents gathered with St George's flags and signs reading 'Illegal criminals out' and 'stop the boats'.
Protesters also formed a group outside the Chine Hotel nearby in July.
Demonstrators waved signs with slogans including 'bring back Rwanda', 'two-tier Keir, two-tier policing' and 'it's not racist, it's a national security risk'.
When two migrants arrived with their belongings in bin bags, some chanted 'send them back'.
BCP Council has been approached for comment.