High Court Rejects Challenge to Home Office’s Use of 2 RAF Bases to House Asylum Seekers

Published on December 7, 2023

The High Court in London has thrown out objections to government plans to use two disused RAF bases to house single male illegal immigrants seeking asylum. Local councils in Lincolnshire and Essex were opposed to plans by the Home Office and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to convert RAF Scampton and RAF Wethersfield, respectively. In the summer, the Home Office announced it wanted to house 2,000 illegal immigrants at RAF Scampton, but West Lindsey District Council objected. Braintree District Council in Essex had also sought to block the use of land at RAF Wethersfield. Airfield Linked to Dambusters Raid RAF Scampton is famous for being the airfield where the Dambusters took off on their famous raid in May 1943....

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