Locals go to war over accommodation centres for 5,000 new boat migrants trends now

Locals go to war over accommodation centres for 5,000 new boat migrants trends now
Locals go to war over accommodation centres for 5,000 new boat migrants trends now

Locals go to war over accommodation centres for 5,000 new boat migrants trends now

Plans to house nearly 5,000 asylum seekers in new accommodation centres across Britain are set to be bitterly contested by local authorities.

Opponents warned the Government it had a ‘fight on its hands’, amid concern from Tory frontbenchers and senior MPs.

One Tory council has already lodged a legal challenge aiming to stop the Home Office plan dead in its tracks.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick announced that 1,200 Channel migrants will be placed in a new centre at Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex.

He also confirmed the Home Office was pressing ahead with other sites at former military bases at Wethersfield, Essex, and Scampton, Lincolnshire, the former home of the Dambusters squadron and the Red Arrows. 

An aerial view of Northeye, a former prison and air base in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex

An aerial view of Northeye, a former prison and air base in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex

Disused buildings at RAF Wethersfield in Essex, one of the other discussed sites

Disused buildings at RAF Wethersfield in Essex, one of the other discussed sites

Each will accommodate 200 people initially, with capacity ‘gradually increasing’ to 1,700 at Wethersfield and 2,000 at Scampton. Only men will be housed at the sites.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was ‘showing leadership’ by bringing forward further proposals to use barracks at Catterick Garrison in his constituency, the minister added.

He said the three first sites would feature ‘re-purposed barrack blocks and Portakabins’ from which migrants will be free to come and go. 

Mr Jenrick also told the House of Commons he is ‘continuing to explore’ using ferries and barges as accommodation to reduce the ‘eye-watering’ cost of asylum hotels.

Tory-led Dorset Council said it was aware of talks between the Home

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