West Lindsey District Council has launched legal action over the Home Office’s plans to put up to 2,000 single adult male asylum seekers at RAF Scampton, the Lincolnshire council said on Friday.
It comes two days after immigration minister Robert Jenrick announced the plan to use three disused military bases to house “several thousand asylum seekers through repurposed barrack blocks and portakabins” in a bid to cut costs and deter illegal immigration.
Essex’s Braintree District Council has also applied for an injunction to stop asylum seekers from being housed at RAF Wethersfield Airfield.
In a statement published on Friday, West Lindsey District Council council reiterated its concerns that RAF Scampton isn’t appropriate for asylum seekers and the plan may jeopardise a £300 million regeneration programme….