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First asylum seekers arrive at Wethersfield Airfield in Essex

First 50 asylum seekers arrive at Wethersfield Airfield in Essex

The first 46 asylum seekers have arrived at a former RAF airbase in Essex as it is brought into use. The arrivals on Wednesday to Wethersfield Airfield, around eight miles from Braintree, are people who were brought to a processing facility in Kent ...

12 Jul 2023 at 18:05

Council loses High Court fight over migrant plan for disused Dambuster airfield

Council bosses who argued that Government plans to use land which once formed part of a famous RAF base to house asylum seekers should be quashed have lost a High Court fight. West Lindsey District Council, in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, argued ...

06 Dec 2023 at 17:49

Hundreds of legal threats over ex-RAF base asylum accommodation, High Court told

More than 200 threats of legal action have been made against the government over accommodating asylum seekers at a former RAF base, the High Court has been told. The government announced last year that it would use RAF Wethersfield in Essex to ...

27 Feb 2024 at 16:23

Local Tories issue legal threats over military base plans for asylum seekers

Tories issue legal threats over plans to house asylum seekers in military bases

Ministers have unveiled plans to house asylum seekers in disused military bases to accommodate their “essential living needs and nothing more” despite legal threats from local Conservatives. Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, also ...

29 Mar 2023 at 16:38

Government facing legal challenge over plan to house asylum seekers at airfields

Suella Braverman’s immigration plans are facing another legal battle after councils and campaigners were given the green light to bring a High Court challenge against housing migrants on disused airfields. The ruling comes just two days ...

14 Jul 2023 at 16:48

‘Chilling effect’ if Jenrick statement used in airfield asylum case, court told

The Commons Speaker’s lawyers have warned about a potential “chilling effect” if a council seeking a legal challenge against the Home Office’s plans to house asylum seekers on airfields can use a Government minister’s parliamentary ...

13 Jul 2023 at 14:04

Council loses appeal over plans to use RAF site to house asylum seekers

Braintree District Council has lost a Court of Appeal challenge over Government plans to house asylum seekers at Wethersfield Airfield in Essex. The council brought legal action against the Home Office over the proposed use of the ...

23 Jun 2023 at 17:49

3,000 asylum seekers ‘could be living on barge and ex-military sites by autumn’

Government aims to house 3,000 migrants in non-hotel sites by autumn

Around 3,000 asylum seekers could be living on a barge and in former military sites by the autumn in a Government bid to cut back on using hotels. Around 500 migrants will be housed on the Bibby Stockholm barge – which was met ...

21 Jul 2023 at 16:26

Government deletes report calling asylum barge ‘discriminatory’

Official assessments that found housing asylum seekers on a barge and former airbase was discriminatory were published by mistake. The impact assessment, which found the policy of housing asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm ...

29 Dec 2023 at 17:23

Charity taking case to High Court over Home Office asylum accommodation

A charity taking legal action against the Government over its use of a former RAF airbase as asylum accommodation said its efforts are a bid to “literally safeguard people’s lives”. Care4Calais said it is taking its case to ...

15 Dec 2023 at 00:01

Council awaits ruling on migrant plan for disused Dambuster base

A council is waiting for a High Court judge’s ruling after arguing that Government plans to use land which once formed part of one of England’s most famous RAF bases to house asylum seekers should be quashed. West Lindsey ...

06 Dec 2023 at 02:45

Bibby Stockholm barge faces fire safety concerns – reports

Plans to house thousands of migrants in new and cheaper accommodation could face fresh setbacks, after reports that the Bibby Stockholm barge has not received approval from local fire services. The Home Office had been ...

31 Jul 2023 at 13:22

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