Overview
- The Home Office, which confirmed Friday the Brook Hotel no longer houses asylum seekers, declined to say where people went after Wednesday's departures.
- Local reports in Watton say minibuses and taxis dropped people at two shared houses, with about four in one and seven in the other.
- A protest is scheduled for 2 pm Sunday on Watton High Street, with police monitoring what organizers say will be a peaceful event.
- Breckland Council leader Sam Chapman-Allen says Watton lacks key services for this housing, and MP George Freeman faults Home Office engagement while urging people not to protest.
- The Brook, used since September 2022 and once home to more than 200 people, is losing its Best Western contract this summer under a national shift from hotels to basic sites including former military bases.