{"id":289752,"date":"2025-11-29T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289752\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T13:35:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:35:17","slug":"cowborough-barracks-asylum-seeker-plan-likely-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/289752\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowborough barracks asylum seeker plan likely delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plans to temporarily house 540 single, male asylum seekers at a military barracks in East Sussex look likely to be delayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The men <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crexe2zdvdjo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are to be placed<\/a> at an army training camp on the outskirts of Crowborough for about 12 months, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/asylum-accommodation-at-military-sites-factsheets\/crowborough-training-camp-east-sussex-factsheet\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the latest Home Office details, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wealden District Council previously said it had been told by the government that the men would be moved into the camp in late November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Home Office spokesperson said: &#8220;We will not replicate the mistakes of the past where rushed plans have led to unsafe and chaotic situations that impacts the local community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans to temporarily house 540 single, male asylum seekers at a military barracks in East Sussex look likely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-289752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}