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Home Office bars asylum seekers from new-build housing sites
The Home Office said new processes introduced earlier this year will prevent asylum seekers from being placed in newly constructed homes. The change follows reports that 83 asylum seekers were scheduled to move into properties at a Shropshire development valued at £250,000 each.
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The Home Office announced that new-build housing sites will no longer be considered for asylum seeker accommodation. A spokesman stated that new houses should never house asylum seekers and that earlier measures were introduced to ensure sites like the Stoke Heath development cannot be used again.
Background on the Stoke Heath site GB News reported that 21 homes at the Stoke Heath development in Shropshire had been earmarked for asylum seekers before the updated criteria took effect. Local residents had expressed anger after learning of the plans, saying they felt misled.
The Home Office said the Stoke Heath case predated the new processes and that the measures were designed to reduce social tensions around accommodation decisions. A Home Office spokesman told GB News the policy change was intended to stop new-build properties from being selected in the future.
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