Cadets have been ordered to leave their long-standing training camp to make way for 600 small-boat migrants.The site in rural Crowborough, East Sussex, is set to be turned into open accommodation for male asylum seekers by the end of the month.On Wednesday night, the town's No.8 Detachment of cadets
The MP for Sussex Weald has welcomed a delay in the Home Office’s plans to use Crowborough Army Camp for asylum seeker accommodation.Nusrat Ghani announced on Monday, December 1: “After 50 days of persistent forensic questioning and campaigning against the Home Office and Wealden District Council (W
Outcomes following Nusrat Ghani MP's meeting with Defence Minister, Luke Pollard on Monday 1st December.Nusrat Ghani said: "Together with locals Jeannette Towey, Crowborough Shield & Cllr Michael Lunn - Wealden District, I pressed the Minister about the provisions for our Crowborough Cadets.
Highly controversial plans to house over 500 asylum seekers at a Sussex military barracks have been delayed.Crowborough training camp is earmarked by the Home Office to house 540 lone male migrants.This move forms part of the government's strategy to cease housing asylum seekers in hotels, instead f
Nusrat Ghani, MP for Sussex Weald, has welcomed the news that following her meeting with Defence Minister Luke Pollard and the Head of Cadets at MoD, where she urged them both to communicate with the Crowborough Cadets leadership, volunteers and parents, the MoD & Sussex Army Cadet Force have no
Nusrat Ghani, MP for Sussex Weald, spoke to ITV News Meridian on Monday 1st December, as part of reports on the ongoing concerns over the possibility of asylum seekers being housed at a military camp in Crowborough.Click HERE to watch the report. Crowborough community group fears asylum-seekers
