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Council takes legal action to stop asylum seekers being sent to Essex airfield

Residents say village of Wethersfield ‘in the middle of nowhere’ is not a suitable place for 1,500 men

An Essex council is seeking an urgent injunction 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 taking legal action to try to prevent the Home Office moving 1,500 asylum seekers on to Wethersfield airfield at a public meeting in the north Essex village on Sunday afternoon. It 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.

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