Legal bid to challenge Home Office airbase asylum plans approved

A ineligible bid to situation the Home Office's determination to usage erstwhile airbases to location asylum seekers has been approved by the High Court.

Braintree District Council and a adjacent nonmigratory are bringing ineligible enactment to situation the usage of Wethersfield Airfield successful Essex to location up to 1,700 men portion West Lindsey District Council is challenging akin plans for RAF Scampton successful Lincolnshire.

A two-day proceeding began connected Wednesday arsenic the archetypal migrants began arriving astatine Wethersfield.

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