Government ‘ignored social implications of housing migrants in army barracks’

A campaign group claims the government ignored the social implications of housing more than 500 asylum seekers in an army barracks near their town. Crowborough Shield, based in East Sussex, claim ‘political choices’ were made in ‘the corridors of Whitehall’ above the ‘risks’ to the locals. The group, has taken the Home Office and the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (SSHCLG) to court over the decision to house 540 asylum seekers at Crowborough Training Camp, a…