Reject Home Office proposals to use the RAF Scampton site as a Asylum Centre

West Lindsey District Council voted to acquire the RAF Scampton site & partner with an investor to deliver a regeneration & redevelopment project. The deal, which will secure over £300 million of investment will preserve, protect & enhance the site by providing aviation heritage, business, aerospace, space & aviation technology & education opportunities. The Home Office have recently announced that the site could be used for the accommodation of asylum seekers, for which there is currently no planning permission & which would prevent the realisation of the major redevelopment scheme. The Home Office plan would be catastrophic with far reaching economic & social implications. The Home Office plan would be counter-productive to the Government’s longer-term investment & Levelling Up agenda.