An Essex council is considering its legal options against the Home Office to try to prevent plans to house asylum seekers on an airfield close to a small village.
Braintree district council confirmed it was seeking legal advice to try to prevent the Home Office moving 1,500 asylum seekers on to Wethersfield airfield. A public meeting in the north Essex village on Sunday afternoon organised by a residents’ group, the Fields Association, was attended by more than 200 people. The village has a population of 700 and residents say an airbase “in the middle of nowhere” is not suitable place to accommodate such a large number of male asylum seekers.
